The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 131)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 131)

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3. The Leadership in the Midst of Members: The ANM
does not approve of leaders who think and plan in ivory
towers. The Movement demands of its leaders to live and work
with the rank and file, for after all the members are not
to be asked to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their
leaders but for the common objective.
The above organizational principles befitted the
n38 when that
first generation or the "community of believers
community was still small in number, but as the organization
grew in size and its cells spread in several Arab states it
was deemed necessary to review the above organizational
principles in the light of the new situation. Late comers
to the ANM, especially those who have had some experience
in political organizations, began to raise doubts about
certain aspects of the party machine. They questioned in
the first place the feasibility of the above organizational
principles in the absence of inner-party democracy. They
asked: "Who is to judge whether a member is qualified for
39 They
a leading post in the party hierarchy or not?"
also complained that the principle of "democratic centralism"
in incommensurate with the "delegate system" where all party
posts are filled by delegates from above. That may be very
38mis expression which best d. fines the ANM in its
early years was first used sarcastically by the Ba'thists
students at the A. U. B., statement by Monah al-Sulh, personal
interview, December 28, 1968.
3° statement by al-Hakam Darwaza, personal interview,
December 29, 1968.

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

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1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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