A very interesting essay written by Nael Shama in Daily News Egypt from couple of days , a comparison between Gamal Abd El-Nasser and Gamal Mubarak , between the late president and the expected coming president of Egypt .
First of all you must put in your mind that this is a pro-Nasser essay , it speaks about How Nasser was in the side of the poor , well this is a true thing but I have something to say.
Strangely both men wanted the same thing and are using similar techniques , both of them wanted to rule Egypt in all possible ways , still difference between G.Mubarak and G.Nasser are obvious , one depends on the west ,the other on the east , one depends on the businessmen and the open market welfare , the other depended on the people and the justice of the socialism ,one claims there is democracy ,the other was much more realistic and cracked it down in 1954 .
Of course the hugest differences between both Gamals are that G.Nasser got huge charisma , political mind and strong personality where G.Mubarak got none of them. You only can know these differences just from watching both men in a public speech , Nasser was born to do this ,he got this leader personality regardless of being dictator ,where as G.Mubarak is fooling himself before us that he has it.People loved G.Nasser sorry they adored him but they can't stomach G.Mubarak
But as I said there are similarities and when I think about I found the following :
G.Mubarak is using the State security authority to secure his plan to the throne ,the same State security Nasser established to secure his throne.
G. Mubarak depends on the one Party that is controlling the political and economic life despite the claims of having a multi party systems , this one party was another establishment of Nasser ,you will be surprised to know that the old members or the NDP aka the old guards were all members in the socialist Union in 1960s , men like El-Sherif and El-Shazely are products of the Nasserite era.
Yes Nasser was from People but he put barriers between him and the people ,these barriers were the entourage , they are different from the time of Nasser now , they are no longer greedy army officers but greedy businessmen , still the barriers between G.Mubarak and the people are there.
G.Mubarak is using the old techniques of G.Nasser like cracking down opposition figures whether from the liberals or from the MBs , like Controlling the official and unofficial media, like filling the minds of the people with lies, like making the people busy in useless stuff e.g :Football,films..etc other than the important stuff.
This Nasserite heritage is still alive thanks to G.Mubarak.
DO not be fool with the economic differences ,it is same thing when we are dealing with dictatorships .
After all Gamal Mubarak was named after Gamal Abd El-Nasser in 1960s
By the way to be honest some times I miss the Old Nasser days despite I did not live it and I do not like Nasser , But I miss the powerful Egypt in the region whom everyone used to fear
great article
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@Anisa, thanks dear
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