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In the article, there is considered from the standpoints of social philosophy an extremely urgent problem of combating the international terrorism, which challenges humanity and which is essentially an Islamic form of fascism. The main stages of development of terrorism, conditioned by the evolution of specific historical societies and their states built on private property and war, are shown. The trigger mechanism of the formation of modern international terrorism is the geopolitical catastrophe of the late 80-th - early 90-th of XX century, organized by anti-socialist forces, which led to a change in social order in some countries of people's democracy and the collapse of USSR, the second superpower of the world. In condition of political, economic and social chaos in these countries, destruction of the world's strategic parity, a series of regional wars and armed conflicts, ter-rorism, encouraged by reactionary forces, has acquired an international character. Among the publications on this topic, a paper by A. Lebedev and V. Inozemtsev about the lessons of terrorism, written from the standpoint of neoliberalism, is critically analyzed. In this regard, the author of this article suggests searching the trustworthy statements and conclusions and, on the basis of dialectic-materialistic understanding of modern society, studying neoimperialism as an antagonistic reality which engenders international terrorism and often just imitating fighting it. Social philosophy and philosophy of education are called, in accordance with its objects of studying, to contribute to the fight against this global evil.