the pervasive sentiment on :reddit-logo: is that the Taliban are just wantonly raping and pillaging, but how much of that is reality vs typical :amerikkka: jingoism.

it doesn't make sense to me why the nominal liberators of the imperialist regime would just turn around and destroy the same country that they're liberating. though I don't doubt that it must be happening at some level, surely the incidence of rape and murder is less than that inflicted by actual invaders, right? I just would have to believe that there would be fighting going on from many pockets if such acts were occurring at large scales.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    3 years ago

    The Taliban executed the last true president of Afghanistan, comrade Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai. Let there be no mistake that they are the enemy of the socialist movement and of the people in Afghanistan.

    That said, after 20 years of occupation the Taliban has transformed from being a radical reactionary organization to being a more broad popular front of national liberation. This is not saying that the radical reactionary section that started the taliban are gone. They are still there, yet the question is how much power do they still have as the reactionary faction versus all the other elements within the new emergent Islamic Emirate.

    Best thing to do is wait and see. Keep an ear to the ground to listen to local sources should you have any. The media has lied, lies, will lie according to their class interests, and that without hard proof with full circumstantial conditions, anything stated should be taken with a salt miners worth of salt