tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post5735885614623815879..comments2024-03-20T01:06:12.181-04:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: From Nasser to Sisi: Nostalgia for Bonapartism?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-73291364935093451592013-10-02T21:39:32.935-04:002013-10-02T21:39:32.935-04:00The toiling masses apparently have arisen.
Paging...The toiling masses apparently have arisen.<br /><br />Paging Ali Sabri and Khalid Muhiyyudeen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-27173164669177702612013-10-02T15:25:22.525-04:002013-10-02T15:25:22.525-04:00As second anonymous I tried with some difficulty t...As second anonymous I tried with some difficulty to be identified as the editor of the Rawlinsview blog. Your comments filter is a bit difficult to navigate<br />Here is a brief link to a wiki describing the events at el-Mahhalla in 2012. I am aware of the substantial role played by the industrial working class in Egypt and Tunisia, but writing from New York am only so second hand and by anecdote. Much of the American left-liberal press would have us believe that it was all started by a facebook comment, by Google staffers and by a certain former UN representative. If there have been some good deeper studies of the role of labor both organized and spontaneous in recent events in Egypt these would be quite welcome. <br />Best<br />RawlinsView<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Mahalla_El-Kubra<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Mahalla_El-KubraRawlinsviewhttp://rawlinsview.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-45411371741583455112013-10-01T21:43:46.163-04:002013-10-01T21:43:46.163-04:00To the first anonymous: it was of course in his &q...To the first anonymous: it was of course in his "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon" that Marx made his famous comment about history repeating itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."<br /><br />And to the second commenter: the whole Egyptian revolution started not in Tahrir square but in Mahallat al-Kubra. But who knows that?Michael Collins Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07398326467953722017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-85856525921643540292013-10-01T19:21:01.344-04:002013-10-01T19:21:01.344-04:00Bonapartism is a well chosen description and certa...Bonapartism is a well chosen description and certainly Fascism is a long way off. Using the classical categories one could argue that the threat of something like fascism is present only from the most radical and conservative of the transnational Jihadi groups, organizations such as ISIS. These do not seem to have the force or following to challenge for power in Egypt though elements of the Brotherhood could break in that direction and re-emerge if the social crisis deepens. <br />What you seem to leave out is the potential action of broad layers of the working-class. The action of the masses has been decisive thus far in Egypt and despite the complications of the past two years there has as yet been no broad defeat of the social aspirations of Egypt's working people. <br />Who runs and is elected for president is one thing, but the consolidation of something that could rightfully be considered as Bonapartist will require the substantial demobilization and lowering of the expectations of the mass of toilers. <br />The resolution of such questions remains well in the future and the fundamental questions of class power remain undecided in Egypt. <br />Rawlinsview.comAnonymoushttp://rawlinsview.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-60273887473489317222013-10-01T18:30:31.390-04:002013-10-01T18:30:31.390-04:00If Nasser was Napoleon, that would make Sissy Napo...If Nasser was Napoleon, that would make Sissy Napoleon III which is probably an insult to the memory of Louis-Napoleon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com