Rakhmetov
22nd June 2011, 21:17
Marx and Lenin would be put off by the idealistic jubilation over a spontaneous revolution that caused Mubarak to resign after a couple of weeks of protests. Marx and Lenin would say that nothing has changed. The materialist basis of the old order is still in place: the elites, the police, the army, the bureaucracy, the U.S. Embassy. Moreover, no vanguard has appeared to lead the revolution to completeness. Marx and Lenin would heap scorn on the prevalent idea that the material interests of the old ruling order, which is still in place, have been brought in line with the material interests of the Egyptian people. Marx and Lenin believed that no revolution could succeed that did not destroy all representatives of the old order. The effective force in history, Marx and Lenin said, was violence. States, in the final analysis, are bodies of armed men who have prisons and other coercive institutions at their disposal.
When Chavez was overthrown in 2002 the interim government of reactionary Pedro Carmona was doomed to failure because the military still had pro-Chavez supporters and these were the ones who saved the day when they drove out the coup plotters and their fawning lackeys from Miraflores. In Egypt if the army is not purged of the Mubarakist elements they will subvert the people's will and usher in a reign of terror against the interests of the revolution and the people.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144#
When Chavez was overthrown in 2002 the interim government of reactionary Pedro Carmona was doomed to failure because the military still had pro-Chavez supporters and these were the ones who saved the day when they drove out the coup plotters and their fawning lackeys from Miraflores. In Egypt if the army is not purged of the Mubarakist elements they will subvert the people's will and usher in a reign of terror against the interests of the revolution and the people.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144#