The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 138)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 138)

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thoughts are imparted. In the Arab World, as in other
developing nations, this class is characterized by its strong
national feelings, and its distrust of the growing capitalist
sector of the society. It should be added that this class is
also characterized by its hostility toward working class
ideologies and Communism in general. The "petty bourgeoisie"
distrust of the "national capitalists" is motivated by
psychological jealousy and patriotic fear that capitalism
tends, in general, to link the national economy with the
capitalist monopolies in the advanced countries. They do
not feel at ease with radical socialist and communist ideas
because it sounds foreign to them and tends to cut their
relations with the nation's history and tradition.
To the above, one may add that the “petty bourgeoisie"
tend to be individualistic, and hence, they lack the solidarity
characteristic of the working class or the capitalist class.
Their concept of politics is half real and half imaginary.
An example of this is their concept of the West. Their
imagination is always excited by the "powerful West". Indeed
it is not unusual to hear a representative of this class
praising the United States and the Soviet Union at one and
the same time. To him, both ascribe to power. He may be
influenced by such men as Hitler, Roosevelt, and Stalin at
4umhe National Charter of the United Arab Republic",
in. Hisham Sharabi, Nationalism and Revolution in the Arab
‘World (Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1966), p. 130.

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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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