The Mohammunist Manifesto—The World as a Binary

In both Islam and communism, there is an “In” crowd and an “Out” crowd, and both ideologies have as their relentless goal destroying the “Out” crowd.

Milli Sands | August 6, 2026

In revealing the commonalities of the Reds and the Greens in the Red-Green Axis, we have elucidated their shared goals of violence, wealth redistribution, and inequality before the law. Here we explore their binary worldview.

Both Islamic political systems, as developed in classical jurisprudence, and Marxist-Leninist communism organize the world into a permanent binary division. One domain is the legitimate, correctly ordered sphere; the other is the external sphere that remains incomplete, illegitimate, or hostile until it is transformed or subordinated.

This division is not a temporary phase or a pragmatic map of power; it is a structural feature that generates a standing external mission, an ongoing obligation toward the outsider domain. The parallel is practical and political, not rhetorical.

Both systems reject a world of permanently equal, mutually recognizing sovereigns under neutral international law. Instead, they treat the external realm as the field of unfinished work, and both built durable institutions to prosecute it.

In classical Islamic political theory, the world is binarily divided into dar al-Islam, the domain in which Islamic rule and law prevail, and dar al-harb (harb: “war”), the domain of war or unbelief. The terms are juristic rather than directly Quranic, but they codify Quranic commands and the practice of the early community into permanent law.

Quran 8:39 instructs fighting “until there is no fitnah [strive or conflict] and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah.” Quran 9:29 establishes the demand for submission and payment from those outside the faith.

Whatever the immediate occasion of these verses, the classical jurists did not treat them as closed to their moment: they extracted a durable legal category, applied it prospectively to every future non-Muslim polity, and encoded it in manuals of law that governed for centuries. A text tied to one campaign cannot found a permanent legal architecture; only a standing principle can.

The external domain is not recognized as a permanent equal. Truces may be concluded, and intermediate categories such as dar al-sulh (domain of treaty) appear in some treatments, but these are provisional by the jurists’ own account. The long-term orientation remains the expansion of the domain of Islam or the subordination of the external to Islamic authority. The dual division supplies both a map of legitimacy and a permanent mission.

Marxist-Leninist communism constructs an analogous binary. The Communist Manifesto ends with the call “Working men of all countries, unite!” and frames history as the progressive resolution of class antagonism on a global scale. The world is divided into the camp of the proletariat (and later the socialist states) and the camp of the bourgeoisie and imperialism.

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