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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe truth is that the neo-liberal economic policies brought Morsi down
Fuck neo-liberals everywhere.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Once he became president, Morsi had an opportunity to address the inequities in the constitutional drafting committee, which was disproportionately in the hands of fundamentalist Muslim Brothers and Salafis, marginalizing liberals, leftists, women and Coptic Christians. He had promised that the constitution would be consensual, but that body was highly unlikely to produce a widely acceptable organic law for the nation. Morsi let the unfair composition stand, and he appears to have been afraid that it would be struck down by the courts (it finally was, long after it mattered, in the spring).
http://www.juancole.com/2013/07/michelle-bachmann-president.html
I don't know if "neo-liberal" or "just plain conservative" describes Morsi's economic and social policies better.
malaise
(269,103 posts)A lot of the policies are designed by the same old multilateral lending agencies.
pa28
(6,145 posts)All the usual symptoms of banker rule by proxy were there. The IMF loan, the conditions for social cuts, broadening and widening of the tax base, elimination of subsidies for staple items.
I'm just hoping the revolving door won't spit out another neo-liberal with a friendlier face in their next election.
Said army will turn on the protesters and entrench the next neo-liberal.
pampango
(24,692 posts)since his social policies are very conservative, too.
pa28
(6,145 posts)They have nothing to do with "liberalism" in the sense we are used to thinking about it and everything to do with classical liberalism. Wiki has a pretty good breakdown of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Ours have destroyed this island