Crisis and Class War in Egypt
In 2011, capital's crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the working class was - and is increasingly so - devalued and disempowered.In Crisis and Class War in Egypt, Sean F. McMahon critically analyses Egypt's recent political history. He argues that the so-called 'revolution' was the appearance of capital's destruction of the value of the Egyptian working class and an existential crisis for capital. In response, productive capital in the form of the military used, disposed of and replaced its junior partners in governing; first the predatory capital of the Mu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78360-505-7
- EAN: 9781783605057
- Produktnummer: 21412411
- Verlag: Zed Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
Sean F. McMahon is assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo. He is editor, along with Dan Tschirgi and Walid Kazziha, of Egypt's Tahrir Revolution (Lynne Rienner, 2013) and author of The Discourse of Palestinian-Israeli Relations: Persistent Analytics and Practices (Routledge Press, 2010).
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