The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 62)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 62)

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against the traditional political and social structures and
their defenders .?’
It is obvious that the Arab Nationalists have adopted
an idealist ideology that was peculiary vulnerable and open
to criticism on the score of self-contradiction and of failure
to reckon with the objective facts of the Arab situation.
In their enthusiasm to achieve the political goals, they
failed to see what social forces must be organized and what
opponents they would have to defeat. No wonder that
Muhsin Ibrahim, a former leader, admits that the Arab
Nationalists had no conception of the laws of social change
at this time, °8
Furthermore, the evolution and development of the
above ideology did not proceed according to a preconceived
plan. It was conditioned by a number of exceptional
historical circumstances beyond the control of the founding
leaders. After the initial cadres had accustomed themselves
to withstand the attacks of a constellation of political
forces, including the Ba'th, the Arab Nationalists began to
adjust themselves to the objective facts of the political
struggle. As early as 1954, the Arab Nationalists have been
at great pains to show that their two-phase program was
misunderstood because of the mechanical separation envisioned
between the political phase and the social phase. Instead
37 See Munif al-Razzaz, Limatha al-Ishtirakiyah al-An?
[Why Socialism Now?].
38vunsin Ibrahim (ed.), Limatha Munathmat al-Ishtira-
kiyeen al-Lebnaniyeen?, [What for is the Organization of the
Lebanese Socialists?], (Beirut: Dar al-Tali'ah, 1970), pp. 17-18.

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

تاريخ

1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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