[lbo-talk] Who is Leading the Egyptian Uprising Now?

Peter Fay peterrfay at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 07:05:41 PST 2011


However it seems the "revolutionary" leadership of what you call the new facebook "Iskra" is none too popular now. It only took 5 days for the "hero" to become a reviled traitor:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604576150604132131990.html
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"Three Facebook pages devoted to trashing Mr. Ghonim have gone online in the past few days. They have titles such as 'Ghonim Traitor,' and already have over 40,000 members.

"Labor activists accused the Revolutionary Youth of selling out the workers after they endorsed the military's call for striking workers to return to their jobs...'They're not real revolutionaries,' said Gigi Ibrahim, a youth activist with the Revolutionary Socialists." Seems things are moving even faster than I predicted one week ago:

[PF]:"The military's best hope now is El Baradei and the liberals who can be convinced to protect the military's and other capitalist's pillaged state enterprises and their criminal fiefdoms, and who can now send the people back to their homes and once that is done, then turn the police's guns on the strikers if need be. Think of them as the new Kerensky-Baradei parliament."

2011/2/18 c b <cb31450 at gmail.com>


> "This didn't have anything to do with Twitter and Facebook. This had
> to do with people's dignity, people's pride. People are not able to
> feed their families." - Richard Engel
>
> ^^^^
> CB: Had to do with both. Twitter and Facebook functioned like Pravda
> or Iskra, the communication organs of the Bolsheviks. The immiserated
> masses were organized organic intellectuals with new social media. I
> bet a lot of the immiserated masses had cell phones, twitter ,
> facebook , too. There's no contradiction between using new social
> media and the motivation from being in immiseration, poverty,
> unemployment. There's a WorldWideWeb of Labor. It's the Internationale
> ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTbashsKic)
>
>
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskra
>
>
> Iskra (Russian: Искра) means Spark, was a political newspaper of
> Russian socialist emigrants established as the official organ of the
> Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. The first edition was
> published in Stuttgart on December 1, 1900. Other editions were
> published in Munich, London, and Geneva. Initially it was managed by
> Vladimir Lenin. In 1903, after the split of the RSDLP, Lenin left the
> staff (after his initial proposal to reduce the editorial board to
> three - himself, Martov and Plekhanov - was vehemently opposed),[1]
> the newspaper was seized by Mensheviks and was published under the
> control of Plekhanov until 1905. The average circulation was 8,000.
>
> Iskra's motto was "Из искры возгорится пламя" ("From a spark a fire
> will flare up") -- a line from the reply [1] Vladimir Odoevsky wrote to
> the poem [2] by Pushkin addressed to the anti-tsar Dekabrists
> imprisoned in Siberia.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
>
>
> Pravda (Russian: Правда, "Truth", was a leading newspaper of the
> Soviet Union and an
> official organ of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party and
> Communist Party between
> 1912 and 1991.
>
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-- Peter Fay



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