If you think that the neoliberal model I describe is not the way the system works in Egypt. ..a few questions. ..
Why was one of the first things Sisi did was to enact the ban on third-party challenges to foreign investment activities (a law written for him by foreign investors?
Why did he cut food and fuel subsidies?
Why did he raise fuel prices?
Why is the uniform law on foreign direct investment being written by investors?
Why is he going to institute the VAT system of taxation?
Why is he implementing every single demand of the IMF?
Why are Mubarak’s debts more important for him to pay than the basic needs of the population?
Why has he accelerated privatisation of public services, including electricity?
Why are people being forced off their land to accommodate multinational corporations’ expansion projects?
Why are convicted toxic polluters being given land concessions to build factories in Egypt after being driven out of their home countries?
The list goes on and on.
If you think that Egypt is following step by step the neoliberal program to serve the interests of international capital by accident; that it is just a coincidence that Egypt is duplicating the pattern of corporate domination seen before in Latin America, but that business has no role in the process, ok. But that is deeply irrational.