Any political thinker today who does not factor into his considerations the influence of private power; who does not deal with the dominant control of multinational corporations and their owners; who does not include in his analysis the impact of economic forces; then his theories will never move from the page they are written on into implementation in the real world.
Even many of the most sophisticated thinkers we see still rely upon obsolete assumptions about global power dynamics, and the role of the state. These obsolete assumptions inevitably lead them to wrong conclusions about strategies and tactics for liberation.
You will find writers saying that we will not achieve an Islamic state until we liberate ourselves from external enemies, and from the clutches of internal enemies; but if they do not include among those enemies the unparalleled powers of private capital, they will fail to develop any effective strategy to secure our freedom from them.
In the past, I attributed this lack of attention to economic issues to simple ignorance; and this is often the case; but over time, I have realized that there is just as often another reason: they do not want to address issues of economic power because they themselves have a vested interest in that system.
The rich backers of the jihad in Syria from Gulf countries, for instance, (who, incidentally, have not undertaken the overthrow of their own governments) are pro-investment opportunities more than pro-jihad, in my opinion. The wealthy men from Qatar, Kuwait, and the e UAE financing fighters in Syria, while claiming to believe that their governments are Taghut, could have toppled their rulers by now for a fraction of what they have spent in Syria.
With the money and connections they have, a coup in a place like Kuwait or the UAE could be accomplished between Dhuhr and ‘Asr. Yet they have not pursued this, nor will they; because they are themselves beneficiaries of the global economic system. They are shareholders, they are investors, and they will profit from the reconstruction of Syria when the time comes.
So, they will talk about the external and internal enemies, and tell you that it means the United States and the “murtid” rulers in the Arab world; they will say nothing about the IMF, the World Bank, multinational corporations, and so on. They won’t talk about the economic mechanisms of domination, because, quite simply, they have no problem with that system, and are in fact, just seeking to advance their own position within that system.