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

[c b]

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From: c b <cb31450 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:55 PM
Subject: Meet Egypt's Future Leaders, Esam Al-Amin
To: charles brown <cb31450 at gmail.com>

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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CB: Except for the right to organize unions,  aren't those bourgeois
democratic republican demands from the period when the bourgeois were
still a partially revolutionary class ? Thus, freedom of assembly, rule
of law are part of the US Constitution from the American bourgeois
revolution. To even have a written constitution as the fundamental law
is rule of law not men , at least theoretically. And of course the
bourgeoisie introduced constitutions.

"The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part. "

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#007