On Jul 5, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
I think I'm going to form a club of Americans who think that
democratic principles should be applied to the military coup in Egypt.
We shouldn't need a very big room to meet in.
Democratic principles? For Marxists, the very first democratic
principle (as Lenin emphasized in *State and Revolution*) is the
recallability of all elected officials. Morsi was recalled by an
overwhelming majority of Egyptians. Who, unfortunately, were unable to
impose their own democratic government at this stage of their
revolution. Which left--very temporarily--the military as the sole
institution capable of sanctioning a transitional government. A new,
higher, stage of the Egyptian revolution has opened.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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