[lbo-talk] The role of social media in the Egyptian uprising

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Feb 11 16:03:00 PST 2011


"Participatory Democracy" was originally an SDS slogan. It never worked because in practice it operated in a way similar to the hierarchy of cliques in a high school class. Some sort of "charisma" generated the hierarchy. Hence the actual leadership was not formally or actually responsible to the membership.

Carrol



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