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Fall of Neoliberalism

The Revolutions of 1989 had one common factor, the defeat of authoritatian communist government's which ultimately led the events to be called he Fall of Communism. It seems as if even though the protests originally started due to corruption and lack of commodities in 1989 they ultimately are remembered as being a worldwide rejection of a poltical/economic ideology. Recent articles suggest that the 2011 Revolutions are infact the rejection of another political/economic ideology, neoliberalism. This is at the moment the same economic theory of, you guessed it, the United States. There are now fears of these revolutions completly undermining the United States' global influence and some are believing ending the epoch of the American superpower. I think that these articles should address some of the Neoliberal undertones of these protests. See: [1] for more details. --Kuzwa (talk) 02:51, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Also see: [2]. This may look like socialist crazy theory. But none the less makes sense. --Kuzwa (talk) 02:59, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I think we need to see how things shake out first. These states were neoliberal to different degrees (Egypt had a huge state sector) and many of the protests had to do with the fact that they were corrupt/kleptocratic more than laissez-faire. You could have probably classified Egypt as an oligarchy more readily than as an ideal neoliberal state. Still, the main reason I would say we should wait to mention anything like this is because we have no idea what kinds of policies successor governments will wind up implementing at this point. Cjs2111 (talk) 05:32, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Tunisia Effect for deletion

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What is the criterion for a "minor" protest compared to a "major" protest? For example: File:2010-2011_Arab_world_protests.PNG.

What is the criterion for a "minor" protest compared to a "major" protest? For example: [ [ File:2010-2011_Arab_world_protests.PNG ] ]. 99.190.84.7 (talk) 18:43, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm guessing it's just something rather subjective. Also, it is really time to add Iran to the map, in my opinion. In addition, can we make Bahrain a circle rather than a dot on the map? It's become awfully significant as of late. Colipon+(Talk) 20:20, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I strongly agree with all of Colipon's comments. Rangoon11 (talk) 21:52, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't want to start a big debate again, but we should move the article to "2010-2011 Middle East and North Africa protests" if we are to include Iran, maybe call it "Revolutions of 2010-2011". Kanzler31 (talk) 00:30, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

EDIT: We seriously have to clearly define what protests we are covering. Kanzler31 (talk) 00:32, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

That is a fear I have deep down myself, there are protests that happen in the world over small things and there needs to be a line placed on what connects to what if it even does. I am looking at some of the proposed titles above and am saying how do you know that no other unrelated protests will occur this year? - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:43, 17 February 2011 (UTC)