The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 157)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 157)

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150.
7... The support of Arab rights in Palestine by the
Socialist camp, and the support of the Palestinian. resistance
movement by the leftist forces in the West was greatly
appreciated by the Arab nationalists.
For the above factors the emerging groups have openly
committed themselves to the thesis that a Marxist revolution
within the Arab world is a precondition of victory over
Zionism, imperialism and Arab conservatism. It is not
necessary to elaborate on the deeper, unconscious or semi-
conscious motivation of the young Arab revolutionaries,
except to emphasize that they contain an element of frustra-
tion. They believe that the petty bourgeois parties and
regimes have been hopelessly compromised by the West and
hence nothing is to be gained by allying their fortunes to
the fortune of those forces. Moreover, they point out that
the present national regimes have proved themselves unable
to inspire and organize the masses for'a confrontation with
the enemy. Thus they aspire to mobilize the masses, i.e.,
the workers and peasants, by upholding their ideology:
Marxism-Leninism.
So far, the above groups have met little success.
For one thing it is necessary to have a "political class"
in the Gramscian sense of the term to provide it with the
vehicle that would attain its ends. Owing to the nature of
agricultural production in. the Arab World, the peasants
remain, in their majority, an illiterate, inert mass. . 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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