... of old capitalist states. This is the beginning of a situation of near totalitarian control. Luxemburg describes this situation through historical examples. One case occurred in the second half of the 19th Century with Egypt. Egypt went from pursuing their own policy on the conditions of land ownership to following the capitalistic guidelines of Europe. There was a "patriarchal simplicity" until the 1830s when Mechemet Ali, the founder of Modern Egypt, started work on the Kaliub Nile dams. This was the start of capitalist enterprise in Egypt and after the construction of the Suez Canal Egypt "became caught up in the web of European capitalism, never again to get free of it."2 European capitalists created needs in Egypt. The sum of these needs aimed to transform all aspects of Egypt into an European-like state. This started with the building of useless canals and irrigation systems. The Nile dams were not a necessity ...

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