Egypt: Revolutionary Process and Global Capitalist Crisis

Ibrahim G. Aoudé, null

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Author(s): Ibrahim G. Aoudé

Publication date (Print): Summer 2013

Journal: Arab Studies Quarterly

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: Muslim Brothers, trajectories of resistance, Infitah, privatization, Arab upheaval, global capitalism

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The upheaval that has swept the Arab world, beginning in December 2010, reached Egypt on January 25, 2011. The article argues that capitalist globalization and ultimately the 2008 global financial crisis were main causes of the uprising. The Mubarak regime's privatization schemes exacerbated poverty and widened the already huge gap between rich and poor. Mubarak employed repression to ensure that no effective political opposition would materialize to challenge his authoritarian rule and crony capitalism. Strikes and demonstrations beginning in 2006 and the lead up to the uprising demonstrated that the fight for democracy and economic justice had been intertwined. The ouster of Mubarak has not improved the economic situation for the majority of the population and authoritarian rule remained under the military and since the election of the Islamist President Morsi. Popular resistance continues against the Islamists in power to bring about a secular regime that would establish democracy and economic justice.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): arabstudquar

Title: Arab Studies Quarterly

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ISSN (Print): 02713519

ISSN (Electronic): 20436920

Publication date (Print): Summer 2013

Volume: 35

Issue: 3

Pages: 241-254

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DOI: 10.13169/arabstudquar.35.3.0241

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[1] Abd el-Fattah, Nabil. (2011). Thelal al-jughrafia assiyassiyya warrabi‘al-Arabi: Idarat assiyassal Kharijiyyal Misriyya fee Marhalatil Intiqal- Mulahathat Awwaliyya (Shadows of Political Geography and the Arab Spring: The Management of Egyptian Foreign Policy in the Period of Transition-Preliminary Observations) . Arabic. Cairo: Al-Ahram Center for Social and Historical Studies, pp. 1–20.

[2] Amin, Samir. (2001). Imperialism and Globalization. Monthly Review , 53(2), (June), 6–24.

[3] Amin, Samir. (2003). Confronting Empire. Monthly Review , 55(3), (August), 15–22.

[4] Amin, Samir. (2011a). An Arab Springtime? Monthly Review , 63(5), (October), 8–28.

[5] Amin, Samir. (2011b). The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation. Monthly Review , 62(9), (February), 1–18.

[6] Aoudé, Ibrahim. (1994). From National Bourgeois Development to Infitah: Egypt 1952–1992. Arab Studies Quarterly , 16(1), (Winter), 1–23.

[7] Bartholet, Jeffrey. (2012). Egypt in the Moment. National Geographic , 221(5), (May), 70–96.

[8] Feffer, John (ed.) (2003). Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11 . New York: Seven Stories Press.

[9] Foster, John B. (2006). The New Geopolitics of Empire. Monthly Review , 57(8), (January), 1–18.

[10] Glick, Caroline B. (2011). Our World: Lessons from the Embassy Takeover. The Jerusalem Post , September 12, www.jpost.com.

[11] Gowan, Peter. (2003). U.S. Hegemony Today. Monthly Review , 55(3), (August), 30–50.

[12] Hopwood, Derek. (1982). Egypt: Politics and Society, 1945–1981 . London: George Allen and Unwin.

[13] Kirkpatrick, David. (2013). Short of Money, Egypt Sees Crisis on Fuel and Food. New York Times International , Sunday, March 31, pp. 9–10.

[14] Kirkpatrick, David and Kareem Faheem. (2012). As Security Deepens in Egypt After Verdict, Calls for a Military Coup. New York Times International , Sunday, March 10.

[15] Ma' al-Hadath. (2012a). Al-Manar.com.lb. June 23.

[16] Ma' al-Hadath. (2012b). Al-Manar.com.lb. June 25.

[17] Ma' al-Hadath. (2013). Al-Manar.com.lb. April 7.

[18] Mahajan, Rahul. (2003). Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond . New York: Seven Stories Press.

[19] Maher, Stephen. (2011). The Egyptian Uprising and Global Capitalism. Monthly Review , 63(6), (November), 32–45.

[20] Rogers, Paul. (2004). A War on Terror: Afghanistan and After . London: Pluto Press.

[21] Russia Today News. (2012). Arabic.rt.com/live. December 5.

[22] Shorbagy, Manar. (2007). Understanding Kefaya: The New Politics in Egypt. Arab Studies Quarterly , 29(1), 39–60.

[23] Wallerstein, Immanuel. (2003). U.S. Weakness and the Struggle for Hegemony. Monthly Review , 55(3), (August), 23–29.

[24] Wallerstein, Immanuel. (2011). Structural Crisis in the World-System: Where Do We Go from Here? Monthly Review , 62(10), (March), 31–39.

[25] World Bank. (1991). Egypt: Alleviating Poverty During Structural Adjustment . Washington DC: IBRD.

[26] Zaalouk, Malak. (1989). Power, Class and Foreign Capital in Egypt: The Rise of the New Bourgeoisie . London: Zed.

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