[T.L.Sink]

I can't recollect the name but someone in the American Enterprise Institute said that in Marxism or Communism the state owns all the means of production and eliminates private ownership and profit; but in fascism private ownership and profit are allowed PROVIDED they fully serve the ideology of the state.

By those criteria I'd say they're fascists AND Marxists, although they hate Marxism for religious reasons. Hey! I think I've got a new term: "Islamofascomarxists".

[GSlob]

I doubt that marxian analysis [economics first] even applies to cultures. "means of production" terminology is meaningless there. Culture [aka "civilization", "way of life" etc] is defined by how people relate to one another and to their groups in socially important situations - i.e. it is [predominantly] a sociological, not economical phenomenon. For example, their ownership of corresponding means of production tells us preciously little about the difference between a medieval dynast and, say, John D. Rockefeller Jr. But "if you're a boss then I'm a turd and if I'm the boss then you are a turd" [verbatim translation of a Russian saying] tells us a lot about the way of life which produced such a saying.