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MENA Revolts: COMBATING BOURGEOIS REVISIONISM

COMBATING BOURGEOIS REVISIONISM Social Media Activism or Mass Revolutionary Organization The current growth in online activism such as social media platforms (Facebook, twitter, YouTube, blogs, etc.) and their politicization is a product of the growing radicalization going on in the society especially among youth. Youths, fired up by enthusiasm to end regimes of corruption and perfidy deployed various social media to beam life pictures of movement, and expose the lies of the combated regime. Mass mobilization of people within and outside the countries was facilitated by social media. Western mainstream media that could have ordinarily censored various stories were compelled by social media news dissemination to air news of the revolt. Government propaganda instruments were circumvented by live news from social networks and real-time online reportage. All of these show that at time of social upheaval, the best of technologies are deployed by mass of workers and youth to adv

MENA Revolutions: The Historical Failure of Neo-liberalism

MENA Revolutions: The Historical Failure of Neo-liberalism  Some analysts, the self-acclaimed capitalist democracy advocates, have opined that what is needed in the revolting societies of MENA is democratic elections and smooth liberal economic system. The big imperialist governments and their multinational backers are already strategizing on huge profits to be extracted from these economies. Whether these will be achieved is a living question. But, it needs to be stressed that if it happens, it will only bring closer bigger and sharper class conflict that will escalate in these countries sooner than later. The imperialism’s double deals in these revolutions will be explores subsequently in this treatise, but let us look at the economic outlooks of these revolting countries and see if they confirm the prognosis of the capitalist democracy advocates. To start with, the mass movements on the streets of Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, etc, have