Bloomberg
"Historians examining our era will marvel at the proliferation of
street protests around the world. Blessed with hindsight, they will
probably not struggle as much as we do to grasp their broader meaning --
one that goes beyond specific provocations in each case (an increase in
bus fares in Brazil, or the destruction of a landmark in Turkey).
On the face of it, protests against the creeping authoritarianism of Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
have next to nothing in common with demonstrations in India, where a
quasi-Gandhian activist proclaimed a “second freedom struggle,” or
Egypt’s Tahrir Square, site of a “second revolution” against the elected government of Mohamed Mursi."
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