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HardWorkingDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:24 PM
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Spread of Democracy in the Middle East or Spread of perceived American capitalism?
It's long been my belief that just because one can vote, does not mean that person lives in a legitimate democracy. The current issue of the New Republic is leading off with an essay filled with joy at what has happened in Egypt and the promise of "democracy."

I'm wondering if true Democracy has instead been replaced with the desire of a system more like American capitalism and the environment that comes along with such a system. In other words, the have's prosper while the have not's fall along the roadside,struggling.

Thoughts?
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:31 PM
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1. Well
"I'm wondering if true Democracy has instead been replaced with the desire of a system more like American capitalism and the environment that comes along with such a system. In other words, the have's prosper while the have not's fall along the roadside,struggling."


They already had crony capitalism under the totalitarian regimes they are replacing, didnt they?

Im not suggesting real democracy will be the final result, but I think the revolutions happened because the people truly want a more equitable economy that includes everyone, so the initial reasons for protesting wasnt to support the screwed up form of capitalism that the US has because they actually already had that.
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Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:36 PM
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2. Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination
Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt
http://ampedstatus.org/analysis-of-the-global-insurrection-against-neo-liberal-economic-domination-and-the-coming-american-rebellion-we-are-egypt-revolution-roundup-3/print

The connection between this latest round of uprisings and the prior protests throughout Europe is one the mainstream media is not making. We are witnessing a decentralized global rebellion against Neo-Liberal economic imperialism. While each national uprising has its own internal characteristics, each one, at its core, is about the rising costs of living and lack of financial opportunity and security. Throughout the world the situation is the same: increasing levels of unemployment and poverty, as price inflation on food and basic necessities is soaring.

Whether national populations realize it or not, these uprisings are against systemic global economic policies that are strategically designed to exploit the working class, reduce living standards, increase personal debt and create severe inequalities of wealth. These global uprising, which have only just begun, are the first wave of the inevitable reaction to the implementation of a centralized worldwide Neo-Feudal economic order.

The global banking cartel, centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paid off politicians and dictators the world over — from Washington to Greece to Egypt. In country after country, they have looted national economies at the expense of local populations, consolidating wealth in unprecedented fashion – the top economic one-tenth of one percent is currently holding over $40 trillion in investible wealth, not counting an equally significant amount of wealth hidden in offshore accounts.

IMF imperial operations designed to extract wealth and suppress populations have been ongoing for decades. As anyone researching economic imperialism will know, a centrally planned Neo-Liberal aristocracy controls the global economy.




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