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Gaddafi And Macbeth Comparison

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The Comparison of Muammar Gaddafi and Macbeth
Muammar Gaddafi was born in 1942 to a nomadic family near Sitre, Libya. Gaddafi was inspired by the socialism and anti-colonialism of Gamal Abdel Nasser while growing up (Finn). He attended a military college and spent several months in Britain receiving further training before he was commissioned (Finn). While attending school he made friends with his eventual co-conspirators (Finn). On September 1, 1969, Gaddafi and his co-conspirators took control of Libya in a bloodless coup (Finn). “An eager disciple of President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt,Gaddafi first set about tackling the unfair economic legacy of foreign domination.For Nasser, it was the Suez Canal. For Gaddafi, it was oil.”(Asser). Large …show more content…

Gaddafi challenged foreign oil executives by telling them "people who have lived without oil for 5,000 years can live without it again for a few years in order to attain their legitimate rights"(Asser). This threat worked and Libya became the first developing country to obtain majority shares from its own oil production (Asser). Gaddafi created his own political philosophy, that was in theory supposed to be a true democracy and the details of which were written in his Green book (Asser). Supposedly this philosophy would fill the the shortcomings of Capitalism and Communism and give complete power to the people of Libya (Asser). In reality people were forced into committees in which they held no real power and they lived in fear of being tortured, killed, or disappearing all together if they spoke out against the regime (Asser). “Legal penalties included collective punishment, death for anyone who spread theories aiming to change the constitution and life imprisonment for disseminating information that tarnished the country's reputation.(Asser)” Gaddafi was able to to preach by the normal restraints of governance, Gaddafi was able to take his anti-imperialist campaign around the world, funding and supporting militant groups

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