Google this and you'll get a variety of answers:
The Unions
Anarchists
Communists
George Soros
Stephane Hessel
No-one (i.e. It started as a grassroots movement)
The answer I would be least inclined to believe is the latter. Unless the Arab Spring was also a grassroots movement. Which it wasn't.
Its a confusing matter. What do you call a cross between a Paradigm shift, and a dialectical synthesis?
The Arab spring swiftly mutated into the Islamic spring. Rather like the Iranian one...
ReplyDeleteThe best commentary I have seen on the Arab Spring, came from the Collins brothers: "Directed discontent: Destabilisation in Egypt and Beyond"
DeleteLinks dont seem to work in the comments section but the URL is here to copy and paste if anyone wants to.
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Articles/Egypt_and_Beyond.htm
Its a long read but fairly accurate in my opinion.