[lbo-talk] A point against article on Egyptian social media starting things

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 14 14:46:29 PST 2011


Carrol Cox wrote:


> Perhaps a better point is to note what the Revolt of the Social Media has
> brought to Egypt: The banning of unions and strikes.

^^^^^^^^ CB: And the French Revolution brought the Thermidor. The Russian Revolution brought the White Armies and the Nazi armies and the American nuclear weapons pointed at the SU. The Viet Namese revolution brought the American invasion.

The lesson u would have us draw from the Egyptian uprising is: don't have a revolution; there will be a counter-revolution.



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