Crisis and class war in Egypt : social reproduction, factional realignments and the global political economy / Sean F. McMahon.

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McMahon, Sean F. [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London, UK : Zed Books Ltd, 2017.
Description
xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    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 Mubarak state with the commodity capital of the Muslim Brotherhood, and then commodity capital with the finance capital of the Gulf Cooperation Council. These reconfigurations have been expressed in all manner of reactionary governmental arrangements including constitutions, legislation and currency reform. Extending today's analysis into the near future, McMahon sees the war of Egyptian society intensifying, and increasingly violent lives for Egyptian workers.--Publisher's description.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-214) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Dialectical development of Egypt's crisis moment
    • Fetishisms and factions
    • Realignments and reform
    • The coming eruption of crisis.
    ISBN
    • 9781783605033 (hardback)
    • 1783605030 (hardback)
    • 9781783605026 (paperback)
    • 1783605022 (paperback)
    LCCN
    2022304615
    OCLC
    962788430
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