Book contents
- The Roots of Revolt
- The Roots of Revolt
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Contemporary Egypt
- 2 The Developmentalist State and the Market Economy
- 3 “We Need the Government to Unleash Us, the Tigers”
- 4 “We Feed the Nation”
- 5 The Mosque and the Market
- 6 “Strike like an Egyptian”
- 7 “You Let the Dogs Eat the Peasants”
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - “We Feed the Nation”
The Military as a Fraction of Capital
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2020
- The Roots of Revolt
- The Roots of Revolt
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Contemporary Egypt
- 2 The Developmentalist State and the Market Economy
- 3 “We Need the Government to Unleash Us, the Tigers”
- 4 “We Feed the Nation”
- 5 The Mosque and the Market
- 6 “Strike like an Egyptian”
- 7 “You Let the Dogs Eat the Peasants”
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter four examines the evolution of the Egyptian military from an organization associated with the implementation of a statist model of development in the immediate post-colonial period, to an emergent fraction of capital in the neoliberal period. Under the tenure of Sadat, leading military figures lost their privileged access to the political sphere. However, this formal depoliticization of the military was compensated with the granting of new forms of economic privileges that enabled the leadership of the military to begin expanding their institutional and personal economic power. In the context of the neoliberal shift in the 1990s and 2000s, the military was able to expand its economic power further, thereby emerging as a fraction of capital in competition with that of the neoliberals associated with the NDP.
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- The Roots of RevoltA Political Economy of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak, pp. 110 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020