Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 46)
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PFLP Position Paper
The National Democratic Revolution
In our last issue we reported on the seminar held in Aden on the subject of the national democratic
revolution and the experience of South Yemen. There were selections from the presentations made by
Comrade Ali Nasser Mohammad, General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party, and by the Greek
Communist Party. In this issue we print a translation of the paper presented by the PFLP at the seminar.
The nature, tasks, dynamic forces and perspec-
tives of the national democratic revolution
The national democratic revolution is a bourgeois democ-
ratic revolution of a new type, induced by the contemporary
stage of capitalism's development into. imperialism, and the
resulting oppression of the peoples of the three continents
(Asia, Africa and Latin America) by world colonialism. Specifi-
cally, the emergence of the national democratic revolution
coincided with the present stage of the general crisis of
capitalism, which began when capitalism was defeated by the
end of the second world war, and socialism became a world
system encompassing many European and Asian countries.
This meant the emergence of new international conditions
favorable to the peoples’ struggle for national independence
and social progress in the colonized and subordinate coun-
tries.
The national democratic revolution may occur in anumber
of countries with differing levels of economic and social
development. It may occur in severely backward countries
where feudal and pre-feudal relations stil prevail, where the
working class is not yet crystallized as a class, and the
bourgeoisie is still in the formative stage, as is the case in many
African countries. It may occur in countries where capitalist
relations of production have developed sufficiently for a work-
ing class to be constituted in one form or another, and the
national bourgeoisié to be crystallized to the degree of being a
class with economic and social influence. This is the case in
many Arab countries, such as Egypt, Algeria and Iraq, and in
other Asian countries.
The national democratic revolution arises on the basis of
two kinds of contradictions: external and internal. The sharp,
antagonistic contradiction with colonialism and imperialism
constitutes the main contradiction. This gives these revolu-
tions the character of national liberation, hostile to imperialism
and to the different forms of colonial subordination and
economic plunder imposed by imperialism on the oppressed
people of the colonized and subordinate countries. The
oppressed people aspire to political and economic emancipa-
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tion and to establishing independent national states. There-
fore, the upsurge of the national liberation movements in the
three continents has contributed greatly to deepening the gen-
eral crisis of contemporary capitalism and to the collapse of the
colonial empires.
In as much as the peoples’ struggle for liberation is against
the political and economic hegemony of imperialism, to the
same extent it attacks the essence of the capitalist relations of
production... In this context, Lenin pointed out that the struggle
for national liberation is a part of the revolutionary socialist
transformation of the world: «The socialist revolution will not
only be the struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie in
every country, but the struggle of the colonies and countries
that are subordinated and oppressed by imperialism, against
world imperialism». Thus, from the point of view of the world
revolutionary process, liberating the oppressed people from
imperialism corresponds not only to their national interests, but
also to the class interests of the international proletariat and
socialism. Moreover, the class struggle waged by the interna-
tional proletariat, first and foremost the socialist countries,
plays a major role in abolishing capitalism. Thus, it creates
favorable conditions for national liberation revolutions, aiding
them in achieving freedom and national independence. This
provides the objective basis for the unity of the forces hostile to
imperialism: the national liberation movements, the socialist
countries and the working class in the capitalist countries.
Strengthening the alliance between the world socialist system
and workers’ movement on the one hand, and the national lib-
eration movements in the three continents on the other,
assumes great significance for the coming struggle against
imperialism.
The main thrust of the national democratic revolution is a
liberation revolution against colonialism and imperialism, aim-
ing to achieve national independence and build independent
national states. Yet this can only be achieved on the basis of
specific forms of internal contradictions. The feudal and semi-
feudal relations that exist in the countries prone to national
democratic liberation cannot continue indefinitely. On the con-
trary, the time is ripe for these relations to vanish and be - هو جزء من
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