Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Caution: This is not to say that blowbacks are exclusively consequences of external forces – Israel and Western powers. Local socio-economic context as well as political factors and balance of forces also played a role, converged or intersected with external players. How Israel went from creating Hamas to bombing it Related My interview with Khaled Hrub , author of  A Beginner’s Guide to Hamas

What might he say about today’s pandemic?

Views on China

“ We must ask ourselves … equality with what? Do men have such idyllic lives that we want the same for ourselves? In a world where people are valued as economic units rather than as people, to be an equal economic unit must not be the height of our ambition.” – Sheila Rowbotham

Some of the arguments in this review are very interesting. Here is one of them. “If you had told someone at the start of 1975 that the architects of the new age were going to be the  MP  for Finchley [Margaret Thatcher] , the bishop of Krakow [ Pope John Paul  II] , the exiled ayatollah [ Khomeini]  and the ostracised apparatchik [ Deng Xiaoping , you would have been laughed at. Apart from anything, they looked so powerless. So we shouldn’t be surprised if we can’t yet spot who is going to make the difference this time round. What we’re waiting for is the counter-counter-revolution, led by progressives who have learned the lessons from the age of neoliberalism and are unafraid to make use of its instruments in order to overthrow them. Plenty have started trying. Someone will get there in the end and maybe by the end of the decade we will discover who. But it is unlikely to be anyone near a position of power right now.”

هدم الآثار وجه من وجوه الرأسمالية المصرية

Who will benefit?