Is Qaddafi rotten to the core or has he just gone mental?

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[Sasha]

he was always mental, but now he has gone batshit bonkers.
but the real problem is indeed more fundamentally, in his "ideology".
like any 3th positionist, trying to fuse fascism (or in lybias case some tribal-national-anarchism) with supposed socialism, its rotten to the core.
and not very much suprising, some of those on the "left" that also try to fuse the impossible, authoritarianism with socialism, used or still cheerleader for him.
national-anarchism
peronism
strasserism
national-socialism
juche
national-bolschewism (and yes, that includes stalinist "socialism in one country")
it are all in the end 3th positionist movements that are lovely as long as they build autobahns and resist "imperialism", but as soon as your an (perceived) danger to the dear leader or his cronys its telling how soon the socialism is forgotten and the fascism comes out in force.
like the quote says in my sig:

"Guess totalitarianism is funny as long as you are on the right side of the barrel" Dimentio

[Vampire Lobster]

Don't read the Green Book, or do it just out of curiosity. Don't think it actually a) has any ideological value whatsoever or b) is an accurate description of the Qaddafi administration.

But yeah, I don't get why some of the people here keep insisting on the supposed mental instability of Qaddafi. I'm not seeing it. I'm seeing an eccentric leader of a thoroughly capitalist leader doing what they usually do. His ideology was always a mean of keeping him and his clique in power and the Libyan workers never really were in charge. They were given panem et circenses, but that alone does not a socialist society make. Libya is to Africa what Norway is to Europe: huge oil income allows high standard of living, but capitalism is still very much in tact there. Covers might be very progressive, but Libya remains an authoritarian version of traditional left-of-center regimes where the people are fed and workers are being treated well, but capitalism still is making the world go round.