Q: What is the guarantee that international business will not use its power to push Egypt into civil war if rebels interfere with corporate profitability as you recommend?
A: No doubt the reflex of business will be to intensify the security response. We saw this briefly in the Spring of this year when rebels first started targeting multinational franchises. Police reaction to the operations against Vodafone and KFC were extreme; as well as the response of foreign embassies and the international media. Businesses expressed the hope that the operations would cease after the economic summit in Sharm el-Shaykh; but yes, the reaction was dramatic, and if rebels resume this strategy, I am sure the global owners of capital will demand a strong crackdown, and probably covert operations to distract and divide the revolutionaries. Indeed, this already happened to some degree.
There are also indications that some elements of the intrnational business community would like to see Egypt descend into a Syria-like scenario; and I am sure Israel hopes for that. However, Egypt has the advantage of being a crucial logistics platform for the penetration of North Africa by business; it also has the Suez Canal. Plunging Egypt into chaos would be tremendously problematic for the Empire of Captial. If the segment of the international business community which wants chaos in Egypt had dominance, we probably would have seen it develop under Mursi’s administration instead of the Coup. The existence of the Coup indicates that corporate imprialism prefrs iron-fisted order in Egypt to chaos.
Furthermore, as long as the rebels maintain their focus on prohibiting the profitability and efficiency of multinationals under any and all circumstances, you will be in a position to dictate how those multinationals respond.
In the absence of this strategy, Egypt has two paths before it at present: slavery or war. With this strategy, however, there is the possibility of avoiding both