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A hierarchy of struggles? The ‘economic’ and the ‘political’ in Egypt's revolution

Pages 614-628 | Published online: 05 Dec 2012
 

Abstract

Egypt's revolutionary process is facing serious challenges, not least of which is the absence of a broadly based movement that can harness the energy of the masses. The forces of the counter-revolution are using all means to derail the process especially by effecting a schism between ‘economic’ and ‘political’ demands where the former is portrayed as extraneous to the course of the revolution. The article demonstrates how this separation in any struggle is falsely conceived and in the case of Egypt is being used as a deliberate tactic to protect the interests of the capitalist state and its agents.

[Une hiérarchie de lutte? L'aspect « économique » et « politique » dans la révolution égyptienne.] Le processus révolutionnaire d'Égypte est confronté à de sérieux défis, non des moindres est l'absence d'un vaste mouvement qui peut canaliser l'énergie des masses. Les forces de la contre-révolution utilisent tous les moyens pour déstabiliser le processus, notamment en effectuant un schisme entre les demandes « économique » et « politique », où l'ancien est dépeint comme étant étranger à la marche de la révolution. L'article montre comment cette séparation dans toute lutte est faussement conçue et dans le cas où l'Égypte est utilisée comme une tactique délibérée pour protéger les intérêts de l'État capitaliste et ses agents.

Mots-clés: Égypte  manifestations  néolibéralisme

Notes

For a discussion of the history and role of Kefaya, see El-Mahdi Citation(2009).

For further discussion of the successive regimes' corporatist policies towards labour, see Bianchi Citation(1989).

In 2012, the Egyptian pound (EGP) is equivalent to  GBP0.103091.

Tadamon, Declaration of Principles, http://tadamonmasr.wordpress.com/about/ [Accessed 15 August 2011].

What has become known as the Maspero massacre refers to the violent attack by the army and police on peaceful, mainly Coptic, protestors in front of the state-run television building in October 2011, while the Mohamed Mahmood massacre saw some of the most violent clashes between protestors and the police around the Ministry of Interior in November 2011.

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