Khaled Fahmy shared a link via Ellis Goldberg. 7 minutes ago A very useful comparison by Ellis Goldberg between the Egyptian and the Chilean coups. What I found most compelling was the section in which Ellis reflects on the future of Islamism and the future of the MB in the wake of the coup. More specifically, the following are truly poignant remarks: "It would once have been self-evident that the Marxist left in Chile, like the Muslim Brotherhood today in Egypt, could not be eliminated from public life. It was, many would have said, too deeply implanted in the society and too deeply rooted in the unions and working class communities. This turned out not to be the case but what is also true is that there were other avenues for unions, working class communities, and political leaders to struggle for social justice and the immediate demands connected to it. The MB may turn out not to be the only way to imagine a link between Islam and politics and their brand of Islamism may turn out, like Communism, to be a real but historically delimited political movement."
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:31:57 +0000