All state power regimes are military. The US government can only stay in power because of the military's support That's why the President is the Commander-in-Chief. State powers is universally dependent upon a special repressive apparatus , standing bodies of armed men, with prisons etc. ; or the military and police; ever since the origin of the state in Mesopotamia 5000 years ago or so.
And all are dictatorships of a ruling class. The military in Egypt can make a plausible claim that it represents the masses of people, the working people; and that it is a dictatorship of the proletariat, since there were demonstrations of millions (tens of millions by some reports; and petitions signed by millions) of people for removal of the Muslim Brotherhood government. It's like the Paris Commune. On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Joseph Catron <jncat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Doug La Rocca <douglaro...@gmail.com>wrote: > > He is right to regard the dictatorship of the military as revolutionary in >> these circumstances, for the simple reason that it DOESN'T offer itself as >> a long-term political form but rather as transitional. > > > I take it you've never spent five minutes researching Egypt's political > history. The whole trick to military dictatorship there is to NOT "offer it > ... as a long-term political form but rather" to call it something else > altogether. > > Did Nasser ever (post-1956) call his regime a military one? Sadat? Abu > Taleb? Mubarak? > > No. What's that tell you? > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
