Tayyip Erdogan have chosen dictatorial line, under increasing attacks coming from international (Islamic version of Moon) Gulen cult / Movement, AKP (un)government finally decided to shut itself at the head by shutting down Twitter, this morning after midnight, adding Turkey in the short list of dictatorial capitalist regimes. Gulen Movement has been instrumental for the Western imperialism, linked to anti-communist underground networks organised by Gladio in 70s and the 80s. The cult got upgraded in the 90s in order to impose neoliberal soft-Islamic regimes surrounding Russia, India and China belt, with instalment of controlled regimes, most notable example has been Malaysia. Gulen cult formed a coalition with reformist Milli Gorus members, those who had ties to Muslim Brothers active in Arab countries. In Turkey, this coalition supported by left-right liberals during the first half of the 2000s in order brake down the ancient regime or old-boys elite network controlled by another coalition or historical block composed of military-bureaucratic elite and capitalist hierarchy under the leadership of the Koc family. 2007-2008 crisis, made a demarcating effect on these kind of coalitions putting global geopolitics in stress. In a many national context, located in the new imperial frontiers like North Africa, inner Asia, Asia-Pacific and Latin America sides involved in similar coalitions had to turn and fight each other using the parts of state apparatus as it has happened in Turkey; bringing state vs. state, deep state fighting against parallel and surface-real (e)states.
The scene has globally and increasingly represented a Cold war 2.0 mess, thought with one crucial difference. Capitalistic tools like Facebook and Twitter, although themselves are taking part in this new cold war, they have provided a much wider public and open space in which the dark side and the dirty clothes of all kinds of elite fractions composing the ruling classes, 1%, including Facebook, Twitter and Google owners themselves. Social opposition of any type were provided with tools globally to train themselves in online organising, developing creative distributed revolts that send feed backs contributing in learning process towards building of a global manoeuvre war against the rulers of the global capitalism. So this last open counter offence coming from Erdogan, is not challenging its local rivals for political power, it is clearly a transnational class act being part of a global chess game played harsher on the imperial frontiers. It might either add to the tensions increasing between Russia and China and the West pushing towards corrective inter elite war, or spark the public launch of the worldwide class war between the rulers and the ruled. Comparing the compact fuse state of the %1 -capitalists and rulers ready to eat each other, and diffused and distributed state of %99 -the ruled and oppressed multitude sectors all seek channels and protocols to build a genuine and worldwide solidarity, it gets difficult to hope for the latter. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
