The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 141)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 141)

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of action. Though they influenced a whole generation of
Arab intellectuals, the liberal nationalists. did not pene-
trate the masses' consciousness. Consequently, they failed
to form the orthodox structure of Arab nationalism.
The orthodoxy was born later by the political parties
which adopted nationalism: the Ba'th, followed by the ANM.
These two parties came to the fore at a time when. the colonial
question was being settled. Hence, they did not have to
fight the identity of "natives". However, they found them-
selves in the midst of another battle where they had to
face not only the regional identities, but also the ideologies
of international Communism and Islamic fundamentalism. At
this time, both ideologies were exploiting the masses
enthusiasm for a comprehensive ideology concerning man and
his universe, a question which the early nationalist writers
did not address themselves to.
Hence, the ideological task as conceived by the
founders of the ANM was to develop a comprehensive scheme
by which a Syrian, an Egyptian or any citizen of the Arab
states for that matter would identify himself with the wider
Arab nation. This ideological task represented a difficult
dilemma for the founders of the ANM who had their political
education within the heritage of liberalism. On one hand,
to keep themselves within the framework of liberalism implied
the acceptance of nationalism as a concept which defined
something that exists, i.e., the Arabs. Consequently, the

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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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