The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 98)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 98)

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they have followed his lead in every battle. It was only
natural that they would continue to do so when Nasser, in
his endeavor to build a unified economic and social structure,
extended in July 1961 his socialist decrees to the Syrian
Region. These decrees, and the Syrian secession of the
following September engendered a serious dialogue within
the ANM. On the one hand stood the "traditional leadership"
represented by Dr. George Habash, Hani al-Hindi, Dr. Wadi'.
Haddad and Dr. Ahmed al-Khatib. This group did not only
accept and defend the socialist decrees, but also agreed that
such decrees could and should be carried peacefully within the
framework of a broad aliiance between the working-classes,
the intellectuals, and the national capitalists. On the
other hand stood Muhsin Ibrahim, the editor of al-Hurriyah
and a small but vigorous group composed mainly of a younger
generation of Arab Nationalists. This group accepted the
socialist decrees in principle, but questioned the possibility
of carrying out such drastic measures in the absence of a
socialist party. They rejected the theory of peaceful
transition to socialism as inappropriate.74
The secession of Syria from the U.A.R. which was
prompted by the feudalist-bourgeois alliance proved the
argument made earlier by the Ibrahim group. Hence a new
program, which accepted the thesis of class struggle, was
24 uunsin Ibrahim, "Arab Socialism in the Making" in
Kemal H. Karpat (ed.) Political and Social Thought in the
Contemporary Middle East (New York: Praeger, 1908), p. 213.

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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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