[lbo-talk] Meet Egypt's Future Leaders, Esam Al-Amin

[Peter Fay]

The term "bourgeois-democratic" may have misinterpreted - this is not to
denigrate those demands (they are required today in Egypt), but instead to
distinguish them from those demands which actually threaten the rule of
bourgeois democracy.

"All general democratic demands are bourgeois-democratic demands; but only
anarchists and opportunists can deduce from this that it is not the business
of the proletariat to back these demands in the most consistent manner
possible." -VI Lenin

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:10 PM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:


> On Wed, February 9, 2011 5:38 pm, Peter Fay wrote:
>
> > The Egyptian people's movement is currently only at a
> > bourgeois-democratic stage with bourgeois-democratic demands
>
> I fail to see what is bourgeois about the right to organize unions,
> assemble peacefully, express public opinions, or citizenship based on laws
> rather than the whims of thuggish autocrats. Those demands are socialist
> through and through.
>
> -- DRR
>
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Peter Fay