Four years have passed since Egyptians of all forms and ideologies took to the streets to protest an ailing autocratic rule that was clearly bringing the country into systematic chaos. The unprecedented protests took police forces by surprise, and the subsequent sit-in in Tahrir Square stunned the world by its determination, culminating in the toppling of the long-serving dictator, Mubarak, by the hand of his subordinates in the military hierarchy. The following months, however, were full of turbulent times and precarious states that have, more or less, led to the death of the revolution in its early infancy. What happened exactly is a matter of interpretation though, depending on which ideology one sympathizes with, and, so, which side one is willing to take. Political analysis is a field usually marred with ideological bias, and analysts are usually lost in details. Therefore, in order to understand fully what has happened, one must detach himself from any bias and look at the whole picture. This is possible only through a process of abstraction; and there’s no political book in history that had discussed politics in abstraction more coherently than – as ironic…
