Finkelstein comments:  For the past several weeks, a correspondent has been preaching the virtues of Egypt’s “revolutionary” “socialists.”  Here’s my response, quoting their Tweets:

It seems your “revolutionary” “socialists” discovered today that Tamaroud are fascists:

Tamroud, the young face of fascism

 

(Strange, sitting in Brooklyn, NY, I figured that out about a month ago: http://normanfinkelstein.com/2013/tamarud-hitlerjugend-declare-victory-egypt-has-been-cleansed/)

 

These Tweeting revolutionaries also no longer seem so cool on the military coup.  But, lest we forget, here’s what your “comrades” had to say right after the coup: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKWxLlCi_z4.

 

You’ll perhaps excuse me if I trust my own judgment to that of your Egyptian “comrades.”

 

Here’s some more expert analyses from your “comrades” today:

 

Oh god now MB call for “a week of nationwide marches”..a week of rage = a week of blood = a week of failure ..i am so tired of this 

 

(One thousand protesters dead, thousands wounded, and she’s “so tired of this”.)

 

Egyptian TV will bring me a heart attack!

 

(Poor, suffering revolutionary socialists! In case she didn’t notice,1,000 Egyptians are well past a heart attack, as they yet continue to brave the Army’s bullets and court certain death, while she tweets away)

 

After German Social-Democracy betrayed its basic principles by voting for war credits at the start of World War I, Rosa Luxemburg memorably said:

“Since August 4, 1914, German Social-Democracy has been a stinking corpse”

 

To which it might now be added, 

 

“Since July 2, 2013, secular radicalism has been a stinking corpse.”