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

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 11:55:59 PST 2011


Peter Fay

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

^^^^ CB: The Menshviks and Bolsheviks "trashed" each other. There were arguments in Iskra.

"Three Facebook pages devoted to trashing Mr. Ghonim ..."

Evidently those trashing Ghonim are using new social media which means they are included in those using new social media ( that's a tautology; smiles). In other words, the criticisms of Ghonim _are_ on the "Facebook- Iskra"

I'm not saying that the new social media users were a vanguard party.

Seems like there was a mass vanguard in Egypt and Tunisia - in other words, an advance over early 20th Century Russia. More of an anarchist model. _Seems_ the masses are more conscious and self-organized than in Russia. But I'm speculating because all I'm doing is reading news reports.



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