The Aborted Process of the Protests in Morocco: The Case of the âFebruary 20â Movement
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This paper analyzes the dynamics that led to the failure of the Moroccan protest âFebruary 20â movement. It explains how the failure is due to its internal ideological divergences and external elements. At the internal level, the âFebruary 20â missed an excellent opportunity to constitute itself as a historical bloc as recommended by the Moroccan philosopher Mohamed Abed Al-Jabri. Largely polarized between leftist ideology and the Islamist movement. The internal ideological quarrels of the movement contributed to its subsequent failure. At the external level, faced with the central Moroccan power, the âMakhzenâ, leading the political game, as well as the Machiavellianism of Moroccan political actors, the âFebruary 20â movement found itself in the rejected category. He was abandoned by those who were themselves the defenders of his own ideas, before changing sides and approaching the political power and became a blessed category.
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The Aborted Process of the Protests in Morocco: The Case of the âFebruary 20â Movement
In: ProtestSearch for other papers by Mohamed Ourya in
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the dynamics that led to the failure of the Moroccan protest âFebruary 20â movement. It explains how the failure is due to its internal ideological divergences and external elements. At the internal level, the âFebruary 20â missed an excellent opportunity to constitute itself as a historical bloc as recommended by the Moroccan philosopher Mohamed Abed Al-Jabri. Largely polarized between leftist ideology and the Islamist movement. The internal ideological quarrels of the movement contributed to its subsequent failure. At the external level, faced with the central Moroccan power, the âMakhzenâ, leading the political game, as well as the Machiavellianism of Moroccan political actors, the âFebruary 20â movement found itself in the rejected category. He was abandoned by those who were themselves the defenders of his own ideas, before changing sides and approaching the political power and became a blessed category.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 925 | 157 | 7 |
| Full Text Views | 40 | 6 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 68 | 13 | 0 |
