Some Western “Leftists” need to understand that there is nothing progressive about Islamist movements in the MENA (or whatever you want to call it); they are certainly not the equivalent of Latin American Catholic liberation theology in terms of their social content. https://twitter.com/rania_tn/status/1281958710991093762

If you look historically at the largest and most influential Islamist movement in the MENA, i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, you will see that ideologically it never rejected the degradation imposed on working class Egyptians in light of the dismantling of the....

The Egyptian developmental state from the 1970s onwards. More recently in the Mubarak period, we see the manner in which the M.B has never been opposed to the imposition of Neoliberal reforms. In fact they encouraged them, because they benefited politically from...

The withdrawal of state services to the Egyptian working class, i.e., they were able to set up clinics and other social services in order to garner support. Their standpoint can be explained by the fact that they are first and foremost representatives of non-productive...

“merchant capital”. Their main financials backers are merchants who benefited from the dismantling of restrictions on imports during Sadat’s Infitah. Thus they have no interest in defending what is left of the developmental state in Egypt. This is on the economic....

...front. On the cultural front, their influence has been catastrophic on Egyptian society. E.g., rolling back much of the progress that was made regarding women’s empowerment during the 1950s and 1969s (limited but real progress), eroding the power of the concept of....

....equal citizenship between Muslims and non-Muslims. Politically the M.B sought to replace concrete political and economic struggles against imperialism with imaginary cultural opposition to imperialism. The M.B. has never therefore posed any significant threat to...

...imperialist domination of Egypt. This also explains why it has found much support in the West. I find it hilarious how “Western political scientists” sometimes write about Morsi as if he was Allende! Absolutely absurd rubbish.

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