| Abstrakt: |
This paper offers a comparative case study of the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the Egyptian uprising of 2011. I argue that the Egyptian uprising did not synthesize a strategic ideology across its various classes, and therefore failed to uphold a full-fledged revolution. Where Egyptians were able articulate their grievances with respect to the existing regime, they did not produce an intelligible and cohesive synthesis about what a new regime would look like. Comparatively, the Iranian case demonstrates that although there was division in existing classes, Iranians strategically upheld the ideology of Islam as an alternative to the existing regime. Therefore, the Iranian revolution was successful in both overthrowing the existing regime and transforming the socio-economic as well as the ideological structures of its society. The question remains, however, whether a successful revolution, as exemplified by the Iranian case is necessarily a better solution for transformative politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
