Are the protests and revolutions in Africa and the Middle East the 1848 of that area? For all of those who don't know 1848 was a year of revolution in Europe, so look it up if you need to.
You know I was mulling this around the other day. You could easily argue that, yes this is a wave of liberal revolutions across a region. Other people are arguing it's a reinstitituion of the caliphate system, which would make it more of an Islamic revolution then a liberal one, but personally I'm not buying that. Another thought, and perhaps tertiary question... Should most of the middle east discard it's authoritarian reins and move towards democracies, would that justify Bush and the neoconservative movement? A big part of that was basically the domino theory, that we install one democratic regime, and the rest of the area would follow. No one seems to be talking about it, perhaps I'll write a paper on it lol
What democracy are you referring to? Representative democracy? republican democracy? Direct democracy? Many socialist thinkers didn't think democracy was compatible with socialism or communism... And what of the dictatorship of the proles state? That's not biased capitalist doctrine, that's part of the sequence....
The domino theory could be applied here, but the first "domino" that fell in this situation is Tunisia and the people's revolution there, not the democratic regime that the US installed in Iraq.
Yes, that is true, but what I think he was implying is the the domino theory was right, just not started in the right place. I think it is the economic situation that caused the current state of the Middle East. Economic pressure always leads to revolution.
