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History is littered with a litany of peoples popular struggles which have been hijacked by elements which are antithetical to the interests of those struggles. The most recent manifestations of this are currently playing themselves out in Libya, Egypt and Syria. In Egypt where almost 90 million people are facing the brunt of an economy and state in crises, the military has engineered a social process that has thrown up the Muslim Brotherhood as the face of the new state. The Brotherhood, like the ANC in South Africa, had gambled that public office would secure sufficient leverage with which to bring about change in the ownership of the means of control, or in other words, the means of production. The economic agents who shape the political discourse and economic trajectory of Egypt, and here it must be acknowledged the Egyptian Army is reported to control up to 40% of the Egyptian economy, besides its direct funding by the United States, had also gambled that it would be able t...