[lbo-talk] Five years in, what can we learn from the Arab Spring?

[Carrol Cox]

Joseph Catron: " Of course, it's probably no coincidence that Tunisia was also the only Arab Spring state where events unfolded naturally, with past and present intervention by Western powers a minimal factor."

This is, in fact, the absolute precondition for either actual democracy or any real approach to democracy in any of the "peripheral" states of the world. 

Carrol