The Dialectic and the Detective: The Arab Spring and Regime Change in Libya

By Julian Lahai Samboma

"This dialectical study of the Arab Spring proves that the so-called revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt were part of a smokescreen to provide cover for the murder of Colonel Gaddafi and regime change in Libya. Before the publication of this book, the common perception of the so-called Arab Spring was that it was a rebellion against domestic despotism. However, by judicious deployment of the Marxian dialectic, we prove that it was nothing of the kind. We show in these pages that the Arab Spring was anti-imperialist in nature and, paradoxically, that it was instigated by imperialism". - J L Samboma, Author "The book offers a rich analysis of the intricacies of the Arab Spring and the regime change in Libya, process that despite the killing of Colonel Gaddafi is far from concluded. The analysis to unveil the hidden dynamics and the anti-imperialistic nature of the Arab Spring is ingeniously developed using Marx's materialist dialectics. Thus, posing as a murder detective, the author takes the reader through each element of the plan that Western countries concocted to pursue regime change in Libya by eliminating Colonel Gaddafi and using the Arab Spring, and its purported aspirations of liberation from dictatorship and repression, to disguise their true intentions. Julian Lahai Samboma cleverly triangulates information mostly available in the public domain to reconstruct the jigsaw of the imperialist driven process that led to the fall of Colonel Gaddafi and the ensuing unrest and fragmentation of Libya". - Grazia Careccia, Human Rights and Middle East Senior Consultant "A radical and timely dissection of imperialism, as well as a particularly interesting case study of Libya and Gaddafi". - Ms A B, corporate publisher who later withdrew support "[An] impressive volume by [an] estimable and talented dialectician of African descent...I cannot recommend [the book] highly enough...An engaging and worthwhile read that demonstrates the utility of the Marxian dialectic...Here Julian Lahai Samboma has created a useful primer that demonstrates the methodology of dialectically interrogating a recent event, the NATO destruction of Gaddafi's Libya, in a structured and precisely enunciated fashion... For professors teaching seminars on dialectics I think this is a very good textbook that furthermore will not kill student wallets, always an added virtue". - Andrew Stewart, Marxist writer and filmmaker, in "Counterpunch" "Yeah, the CIA recruited that fruit peddler in Tunisia who self-immolated in January, 2011 just like they recruited the guys who flew jets into the WTC and the Pentagon in 2001. If it weren't for these men willing to die for the right of the USA and Israel to rule over Arabs and North Africans, things would have been much better". -A Reviewer "You have obviously not read the book, even though I submitted a review copy. This is heckling, not constructive criticism. You have conflated several issues in that response. Your take on the self-immolating fruit vendor is a reified perception of the real, hidden movement of what Marx called "empirical matter". That is precisely one of the reasons I wrote the book, to remove the mote from the eyes of comrades and non-comrades alike. If the appearance was the true reflection of the essence, to paraphrase Marx, there would be no need for science, or for the materialist dialectic, which is the scientific method". -J L Samboma

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1795345993
• ISBN13: 9781795345996
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"