- Life Style The 25 January revolution can be considered the
final showdown of the Nasserist socio-political order, which has
been slowly decaying since the 1967 defeat. Nasserism was based
on a paternalistic authoritarian state where political rights
were sacrificed for social and economic ones. The collapse of
the remnants of the Nasserist political apparatus implies the
absence of the institutional framework through which the social
conflict was traditionally managed in Egypt for over six
decades. This poses the greatest challenge to the current ruling
party, which has to find a new ruling order — one that differs
from the Nasserist system of Gamal Abdel Nasser and his military
successors. The Six-Day War of 1967 leveled a lethal blow to the
whole Nasserist order, setting it on a long-declining
trajectory. Under Anwar Sadat, attempts were made to generate
economic growth through partial economic liberalization while
trying to appease the traditional Nasserist constituencies made
up of state employees, publ