>If this is a realistic psychology, a full explanation of the Taliban would
>require examination of the social relations including the economic and
>family relations within which its members developed and live. This is what
>I understand Marx to have meant by a "materialist" analysis.
I think many self-professed materialists would regard this as too personal, individualistic, smelling too much of subjectivity, preferring that "materialist" analyses be carried out at a high level of abstraction, the realm of "imperialism" and "finance capital."
Doug