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About this book
Covering Sadat, Mubarak, and the post?revolution periods, this book presents a contemporary intellectual history of the Egyptian secular left in politics since 1970.
It covers a timeframe which witnessed cycles of repression and inclusion and explores how leftist parties which lack mobilization capacity respond behaviourally and ideologically to political openings, evaluate political opportunities, and assess the feasibility of elections. The author tells the story of two secular parties that fairly represent the secular spectrum, examining the options the leftist parties chose in order to survive the competition with strong Islamist and state-led parties. These are the Tagammu Party, a leftist opposition which shifted towards statism by political liberalization in the 1980s, and the Revolutionary Socialists, an opposition that diverted in an anti-institutional direction after democratization in 2011–2013. These opposing pathways seem to challenge the inclusion-moderation hypothesis. Introducing the Moderation Theory to secular actors opens a broad spectrum in which to comprehend the under-studied field of Arab secularism and rethinking, and, at the same time, the scope of moderation hypotheses. Consequently, the author argues that democratization can lead to de-moderation.
The Political Left in Egypt will appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in Middle Eastern politics, and especially Egyptian politics and secular left politics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Note on Transliteration
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 Introduction: The Need to Revisit the Seculars
- 2 Can Democratization Lead to De-Moderation?
- 3 The Origins of Statist Seculars: An Ideological and Historical Background
- 4 The New Democratized Left: Tagammu under Sadat
- 5 The Return to Statism: Tagammu under Mubarak (1981–1995)
- 6 The Rise of Anti-State Secularists: The Revolutionary Socialists and Formal Politics under Mubarak
- 7 Inclusion and Anti-Parliamentarianism: The Revolutionary Socialists in the January Revolution
- 8 Conclusion and Final Remarks
- Selected Bibliography
- Index