egypt
i have a deep resentment for all the liberal bloggers/ “leftist” journalists that spoke about what is happening in egypt, there were all this folks that spoke about the situation as 1) an abstracted fight for freedom 2) devoid of “isms” and old ideologies, as if the revolt was lead by soul-less hipsters and tech geeks through the marvels of dumb tweeter and facebook. what about the slum kids that strolled out of bed to burn shit down? they sure as fuck have no access to the internet. they don’t own smartphones and all that gadgetery either.
now that murabak was deposed and the motherfuckers in the army dissolved the constitution and banned strikes (with the support of the US), one has to wonder whether this whole idea of “ism-less” revolution was just some empty slogan. there is no such thing as “ism-less” movements. there were all sorts of factions and people with money riding the coat-tails of angry kids. this is with all movements ever - people generally do not snap and destroy shit because of big ideas (nor now nor in the early 20th century) but because of very concrete socio-economic situations - in these case joblessness and food prices; this doesn’t this movements always have ideological factions behind ‘em. the muslim brotherhood was obviously big, as well old type, starry eyed nasserites, as was the army.
whatever 2012 is near and when the armageddon happens imma gonna slam some forties and kill zombies and form an aztec militia.
