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2011/1/27 Gary MacLennan <[email protected]>: > > Let us hope that the > reluctance of the ElBaradei types means that they will struggle to get > control of what looks increasingly like an uprising. the regime is in > trouble and I interpret the ElBaradei maneuver as a fall back strategy by > the Egyptian ruling class. I fully agree in your interpretation. What I tend to take in account -harsh experience along decades of political struggle in a semicolonial country- is that any comparison with the Russian Revolution must take into account the relative strengths of the local power and imperialism. Even Tsardom was stronger vis à vis the powers of those times than any semicolonial government today. In THIS sense, both Kerensky and the Bolsheviks acted in a different scenario than that of their eventual counterparts in Egypt. A yes, I am a bore, but there is the Arab national question at stake (please take capitals as italics): ONLY IN EGYPT? WOULD IT NOT BE LIKE A BOLSH REV CONSTRAINED TO THE MOSCOW REGION? While in Tsarist Russia the national question turned around the right to break away, in the Arab case the national question as well as in Latin America turns around the right to unite. Egypt is in this sense the Brazil of the Arab world. Nothing less, but NOTHING MORE. Think of the imperialist policy makers in this context... Relinquish Brazil only because some thousands have taken the streets? Relinquish Egypt for same reason? I don´t see the Washington policy makers even thinking of that alternative. > > Out of all this turmoil a side effect that I expect will be a return to the > State Dept of the discarded Arabists to replace the Zionist ignorami. > This line of thought is really interesting, and IMHO the best we can expect to happen now. Hope you are right. > But it will be too late Hope you are right, again... Best. -- Néstor Gorojovsky El texto principal de este correo puede no ser de mi autoría ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
