The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 27)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 27)

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In the third place, the socialist thought began to
gain momentum in the Arab World immediately after the war.
‘One reason for its growing impact was the victory of the
October Revolution in Russia. Lenin's theory of
“imperialism the highest stage of capitalism" appealed to
many Arab intellectuals who embraced the idea of an alliance
between their people and the Soviet Union. The first decade
after the war witnessed the spread of revclutionary socialist
cells in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. The
emerging socialists repudiated altogether the democratic
ideals of the pre-war generation. Instead they applied
Marxism to the study of Middle Eastern society.
It is significant to note that while Marx and Engels
threw light on the process of social evolution and investigated
pre-capitalist historic stage, Arab Marxists and especially
communists gave only little consideration to the understanding
of the Arab nationalist movement and its socio-economic
formations. They hastely embarked on a program befitting an
industrial nation. They tried to Organize proletarian mass
parties in countries without an industrial proletariat. *®
Moreover, they failed to understand Arab nationalism in the
context of the wider struggle for national independence and
social advancement of the colonial peoples. In fact they
alienated the Arab nationalists by assuming that the nation
26Walter Z. Laqueur, Communism and Nationalism in
the Middle East (New York: Praeger, 1956), p. 27.

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

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1971-02-07

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Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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