New fleet of 76 public transport buses starts operation in Jeddah on Tuesday Environmentally friendly electric buses introduced for first time    Foreign investors are allowed to engage in real estate business outside Makkah and Madinah Commercial speculation should not be the purpose of real estate transaction    EU preparing 'further countermeasures' to protect its interest, von der Leyen says    Saudi Arabia urges stronger global action to protect children in cyberspace at UN    Musk's X is suing India, as Tesla and Starlink plan entry    Tesla sales plunge after backlash against Elon Musk    Saudi Arabia posts SR49.8 billion travel surplus in 2024 as visitor spending hits SR153.6 billion    911 emergency centers handle over 2.8 million calls in March    Israel announces expansion of military operation in Gaza to seize 'large areas' of land    US cancels visa of Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias    Danish prime minister refutes US claim on Greenland on visit to the Arctic territory    Aubameyang fires Al Qadsiah into King's Cup final with stoppage-time winner over Al Raed    Cristiano Ronaldo joins Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves    Saudi Arabia welcomes trilateral border treaty between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan    Swedish table tennis legend Jörgen Persson appointed head coach of Saudi national team    Danilo Pereira fires Al Ittihad into King's Cup final with dramatic stoppage-time double    Screen time in bed linked to insomnia, study finds    Mexico bans junk food in schools to fight childhood obesity epidemic    Sweet sales surge ahead of Eid as Saudi chocolate imports top 123 million kg in 2024    Saudi creatives shine at Jeddah's Fawanees Nights with art, fashion, and storytelling    Bollywood actress vindicated over boyfriend's death after media hounding    Grand Mufti rules against posting prayers and preaching in mosques on social media    King Salman prays for peace and stability for Palestinians in Ramadan message King reaffirms Saudi Arabia's commitment to serving the Two Holy Mosques and pilgrims    Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan 'out of danger' after attack at home in Mumbai    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    







Thank you for reporting!
This image will be automatically disabled when it gets reported by several people.



From "Bouazizi" to "Mao Zedong"
Published in Alriyadh on 22 - 02 - 2011

What if Mao Zedong, the initiator of the big revolution and then cultural revolution, came back to life and found that it was a Tunisian young man named "Bouazizi" who forced the current Chinese government to oppress everything related to the Jasmine revolution, and that the last choice is represented in a set of public guns threatening the superpower of mobilizing demonstrations? As if history says that it is the Arab proletarian revolutionists that are going to undermine the Peasant revolt of China which shook the world, and as if history want to omit one revolt that upset the balance of power and opposed the soviet theory by considering it as imperialist with a Bourgeois cover, and an alteration of the Marxist origin.
In Europe – which always resorted the Ten Commandments to spread democracy and the domination of the Western system as a necessity, besides considering Israel to be worth protection and support, and in the light of the absent Arab role in the life scene with dictatorships that did not have any contribution to the modern civilization, the change contradicted all the old thoughts where the press columns of the most radical right-wing anti-Arabs newspapers called on for the necessity of a quick reaction by the Arab countries overlooking the Mediterranean, and for adopting a European "Marshall Plan" to rebuild those countries for fear of having radical Islamic systems in place, or of the growth of the migration trend to Europe.
Of the wonders of this age is having an Arab generation in Tunisia, Egypt, the Levant and the Arab Peninsula states that used to see Lenin and Mao before many decades as figures of a historical revolution that would achieve justice. Now, reality contradicts such an image, and transforms all patterns by representing an Arabic revolution as a revolution of nations taking the place of other revolutions that used to represent the greatest models of revolutions. Of the wonders also is how a new world, as described by global analysts, has been born on the Arab land leaving insularity into the universally common act of rebelling.
The democratic West insisted to stand against achieving the Arab objectives towards freedom and democracy when its political and social research centers concluded that Arabs are biologically and mentally a copy of an ancient world, and are inefficient to enter the concept of democracy. So how would they be able to apply it? They tried to attribute that to the cultural nature of the Arab societies being peasantry and tribal, and to the religion and the language as two key factors, and a factor of bequeathing continuous ignorance, curbed growing and backwardness.
The East with its nationalist, soviet, and Chinese revolts, even though history has not records of any enmities with the Arabs, attempted to present its pattern to represent a force of pressure on the Capitalist camp by means of public collisions led by the communist parties. With the decline of those waves, the East and the West were surprised of the new and unprecedented Arab phenomenon. The question here is: did that happen because the secret of the revolution which lies in the use of a technical tool that happened to "globalize" the revolution rather than making it regional? And even in a country like China, have the barriers vanished to the extent that its great wall might be shaken before what "Bouazizi" has done?!
Undoubtedly, it is the revolt of history and time.


Clic here to read the story from its source.