[lbo-talk] how the regime is winning in Egypt

[Richard Seymour]

On 09/02/2011 15:29, Doug Henwood wrote:
> This containment strategy has worked. By politically encircling the protesters, the regime prevented the conflict from extending beyond its grasp. With the protesters caught between regime-engineered violence and regime-manufactured safety, the cabinet generals remained firmly in control of the situation.

They don't *seem* to be in control.  They seem to want the protests to
end, the momentum to die down, the demands to cease, people to go home -
and they seem not to be getting that.  Instead, the movement is becoming
even more disruptive, as mass strikes break out all over, and threaten
to bring throngs of militant workers back into Tahrir Square on Friday. 
The generals daren't enforce their decrees through outright massacres
(yet), so for the time being all they have is the hope that the revolt
won't intensify or spread further still.

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