Half a century of transformations in Egypt : the revolution of 25 January effects and implications

Abstract

Egypt underwent many transformations during the second half of the last century and the first decade of the present century. These changes in economic policies have influenced the class structure of the society, and the capitalist class has been given the opportunity to exert pressure on the government for more privileges and guarantees. The deterioration of economic, social and political conditions, the low standard of living and the inability to satisfy the basic needs of members of the society in general and the middle class in particular, were vulnerable to social and ideological marginalization, Physical and social, as well as the collapse of the weak and the system of values, morals and the spread of corruption so that led to the weakening of the Egyptian man linked to his society and the fragility of belonging to him. The protest culture spread in the Egyptian society, which paved the way for the emergence of the class protest movements, in addition to the state of the revolutionary protest momentum represented in the revolution of 25 January and the demands to improve the living conditions and rebuild the social, economic and political system as a whole. Lost social