Egypt: Not 'transition', but Class Struggle

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/hanieh140211.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter


"The result of neoliberalism was the enrichment of a tiny elite concurrent with the immiseration of the vast majority.  This is not an aberration of the system -- a kind of 'crony capitalism' as some financial commentators have described it -- but precisely a normal feature of capitalist accumulation replicated across the world.  The repressive apparatus of the Egyptian state was aimed at ensuring that the lid was kept on any social discontent arising from these worsening conditions."