``Let there be no confusions about what is happening in Egypt. All the anti-government protesters are reformists, or, at best, half-revolutionaries. Half Revolutionaries in the sense that they want to change a regime--they have no objection or issues against feudalism or capitalism. They have no idea about how humanity can survive and dwell best upon this negligible and horribly petty earty. Egypt's is a spontaneous happening--without the previous preparation necessarily required for politico-cultural victory...''
Zihannasheen
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I think the above is probably an inaccurate view of what's going on in Egypt. Mubarak is just a symbol for exactly a neoliberal regime of croney capitalism and its dependence on a global elite. Throwing Mubarak out is a symbolic victory for throwing out foreign company and western interests.
As for phoney democracy, I think that is what is behind the whole move to political revolution. They are convinced right or wrong, they get elections to elect representative government of the people's interest.
The battle over capital is probably reflected well by an article posted earlier. The split is between a nationalist capital or in country egyptian owned industries and international capitalist who populate the croney class associated with Hosni and Gamal Mubarak.
So the US and UK leaders of international capitalism, and US UK political elites have a great interest in preserving Mubarak or somebody Suleiman.
As to whether Egypt is prepared or not, from what I see and listen to they are very well prepared. Remember they lived under a police state, but certainly appear to have pretty vibrant and well educated people, even if that education was not in colleges. For example, the April 6th, from what I've heard was started by better educated, union workers and students and these people were at the core of this revolution.
I am trying to apply what I've been learning about Egypt about a week, so I could easily be all wrong. I think if they get to a new parliament system, they will begin to be forced to realize beside political repression, they are also under capitalist oppression that has produced an economic castrophy.
``There can be no revolution in the world without the revolt of the army. Army is the key to every revolution.''
Of course. But haven't we already seen this understanding coming from Tahrir. They know this and are working away as hard as possible to get the lower ranking officers to split off from the top brass. There are also the military academies to work on. They've already got a couple of retired generals.
The army is trying to have it both ways. Of course the top brass support Mubarak because the army is a business. But they will have to choose, and I hope they choose Tahrir. I suspect as long as the Tahrir movement can apply mass protest pressure, the army will split along some seams with the officer ranks. Part of the reason I believe this is because evidentually somebody is going to start shooting and the rest of the army will refuse the fight.
CG