The history of neoliberalism is a violent, bloody history. Not only were the “dirty wars” in Latin America fought to secure the interests of multinationals and investors; with thousands of victims killed and “disappeared”, but also neoliberalism creates horrific conditions in society responsible for thousands of deaths due to disease, unsafe working conditions, hunger, poverty, and vicious repression by state security forces.
No one should take it lightly when an innocent person is killed, and those who are struggling, risking their own lives, to liberate Egypt from corporate imperialism and foreign domination, must take it more seriously than anyone else. After all, your anti-imperialist struggle, is a fight for the freedom and dignity of each other, not against each other.
There are those who will use the death of the man who died in the KFC on Thursday to cynically imply that multinationals should not be targeted. They take his death more lightly than anyone by using it to justify submission to neoliberal domination, which sacrifices the lives and futures of not only Egyptians, but through the conquest of Egypt, millions of Muslims throughout the Middle East and North Africa.