The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 148)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 148)

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and rendered useless.+? the Arab Nationalists rejected
their ideology as a dogma that was partly responsible for
the defeat.
They abandoned all the assumptions and structure of
the old ideology and set themselves to start anew. It is
important to note here that this soul~searching did not
come all of a sudden following the June war. We had
occasion to refer to the ideological struggle which erupted
within the Movement as early as 1962. Nevertheless, the
defeat of the Arabs in June 1967 accentuated the ideological
crisis and gave it the chance to surface, and very violently
for the matter.
For the first time in the life of the ANM, the old
concept of the nation as one "whole" was abandoned, and a
completely new analysis of the Arab society:was upheld. It
was emphasized that the old notion that the people are free
because the nation is free from foreign dominance is wrong.
The freedom of the people cannot be won unless the masses
organize themselves in political groups and force a democratic
dialogue. The main point in this analysis is that the pro-
gressive regimes of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Algeria along
with the Ba'th, the ANM and the Communist parties do not
represent the interest of the masses. They represent the
interests of the petty bourgeois class whose political program
a
13,NM, Mawdhii'at Khamisah.’ Huzayran [Subjects of June 5],

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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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