The resignation of the government in Egypt on February 24th only proves the irrelevance of the government itself. They only want to create for us an illusion of democracy, so that the people will be address their demands to the government, instead of to the real power structure which controls the government; and this is private economic power.
As long as people address their demands to the government, all the power structure has to do is to shuffle it, or replace it, and the people will believe that they have made progress. One administration goes, and another comes, and the people will begin all over again with them demanding their basic rights and needs.
The new administration won’t grant them what they need, and so the people will rise up against it, and it will be replaced, and the cycle will continue.
But no administration is in a position to grant the people their rights and meet their demands, because every administration is administering the affairs of the state for an authority above it: Multinational corporate power.
Keeping the people distracted with the illusion of democratic processes is only a way to ensure that their condition won’t change; it is a means of keeping the people powerless to achieve their demands, because they are constantly addressing their demands to a false authority which does not itself have the power to grant them.