Neoliberalism is Denial.

 For the past dozen days Egyptians have revolted against a 30 year old dictatorship, headed by a decrepit old man, left over from the Cold War era.  Mubarak's regime, another long list of US foreign policy blunders going down in flames and again as all over the world "the people" are the cause! 

For the first time a revolt of this magnitude is happening before my/our eyes and the people who are participating are speaking loudly and clearly regarding as to why they occupying Tahrir (Liberation) Square. Regardless their loud voices and the Egyptians' own reasons, and there are a many reasons, the voices of opinion and authority on the big three: freedom, democracy, and capitalism keep repeating the same old fears and mantras in hoping that their facade does not come crashing down and expose their historically repeated hypocritical rhetoric of freedom, democracy, and capitalism.  The biggest insult was recently published in a Time magazine special report, Revolution: "How Democracy can Work in the Middle East" by the arrogant Fareed Zakaria.  As he dabbles in realpolitik and simultaneously romanticizes the Egyptian protests, he makes loud rhetorical statements about a transition to free-market democracy as if a transition to free-market democracy is some profound statement and not a stale and tired old concept that got Egypt and the rest of us in this position to begin with.  It truly confuses me that individuals who are perceived as smart individuals, movers and shakers, and contemporary intellectuals who are in the know are continuously making excuses and adding the word crony in front of capitalism to explain away the problem rather than actually look at the conditions produced to insure that exchange-value maintains its hold on global production and politics.  Atleast Zakaria is smart enough to not buy into the fear mongering brought on by Islamophobia or the ranting of the right who just want to unleash war on anyone and everyone.  Either way both the liberal and extreme-right just want to explain away the economic causes of revolt. 

With Egypt it is so hard for anyone within the Obama administration or on CNN to blatantly lie to us all and themselves regarding why Egypt is important for "us" and potentially a problem for the free-market.  Democracy is only productive and authentic as long as it elects a pro-business political machine which will then dictate to citizens through violence, marginalization, or spectacular commodities (alienation).  Even with the New York Times their articles contain an amount of worry with the possibility of Egyptians doing something that does not exactly fit within the greater plan capitalism has for the Arab World.

Today with strikes happening in Egypt, protests, and the continued occupation/liberation of Tahrir Square a Free Egypt has risen, an embryonic commune, but the free-market forces are starting to circle over the square in hopes of failure either bloody defeat or a spectacular parliamentary failure of representation and social poverty.

To hell with Zakaria's wet dreams of democratic capitalism...

To hell with glenn beck's fear of  a Muslim caliphate...

Long Live Tahrir Liberation Square!