Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 47)
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Ali Naser Mohammed, the revolutionary leader
replaced with more developed relations of production. Thus,
the national democratic revolution is required to resolve these
internal contradictions.
Hence, the tasks of the national democratic revolution
include the following: enacting agrarian reform to the benefit of
the working peasants; fostering the growth of industrial and
agricultural production; expanding the internal market; cancel-
ling the exploitative social and economic relations and forms of
class oppression enforced by colonial rule and by the class
hegemony of feudalist and reactionary forces in these
societies. Furthermore, taking measures to spread democracy
gives these revolutions their democratic character.
The dynamic class forces, leadership, tasks and perspec-
tives for development of the national democratic revolution
vary due to differences in the level of social and economic
development, national characteristics and the political condi-
tions of the struggle in the countries concerned, and due to dif-
ferences in the regional and international alliances.
The class forces with interests in the national democratic
revolution are the working class, the peasants, the petit
bourgeoisie and the middle strata of the population. Also the
national bourgeoisie may play a role in this revolution. How-
ever, it is not long before the role of this class decreases and
vanishes, due to its fear of the upsurge of the mass movement
and its own dual nature.
The major characteristic of the contemporary world is the
transition from capitalism to socialism. The balance of class
forces on the international level is continuously tilting in favor of
the forces of liberation, socialism and peace. Thus, national
democratic revolutions were victorious in many countries of
the three continents; the great majority won national indepen-
dence and established independent states.
At the same time, some peoples with differing degrees of
social and economic development not only achieved national
democratic liberation, but moved into the stage of socialist
transformation. Lenin declared that while fighting to eradicate
colonial oppression and achieve national independence, the
oppressed people are simultaneously struggling against the
basis of capitalist exploitation. This has been substantiated:
Some peoples, having abolished colonial rule, the positions of
imperialism and the remnants of feudalism, were able to
embark on the transition to socialism while undertaking the
tasks of the national democratic revolution.
The revolutions that have occurred in the three continents,
from the end of the second world war until today, are national
democratic in nature. Accordingly, the major tasks of these
revolutions were antagonistic to imperialism and the pre-
capitalist relations of production.
Other revolutions have failed to accomplish all the
national democratic tasks, were unable to accomplish them
fully, or to create the material and spiritual conditions condu-
cive to socialist transformation. This can be traced to the
nature of the social classes and political parties that led these
revolutions.
There was a time when the national bourgeoisie (compris-
ing allits strata, petit and middle, its political parties and leader-
ship) had the opportunity to lead such revolutions, as hap-
pened in a number of Arab countries. Yet this bourgeoisie was
unable to lead the national democratic revolution to its logical
end, due to its class limitations, vacillation and fear of the mass
movement. Rather the bourgeoisie stopped halfway and even-
tually repudiated the national democratic course.
On the other hand, national democratic revolution occur-
red in countries such as Cuba, China, Korea, Vietnam and
other countries in the Southeast Asia. In some of these coun-
tries, the level of social and economic development was lower
than that in Arab countries such as Egypt, Iraq and Syria. Yet
the working class, via its vanguard political parties, was pre-
pared to play a leading role. It established a revolutionary
alliance with the peasant masses, and with the urban and rural
petit bourgeoisie. This enabled these national democratic
revolutions against colonialism and feudalism to accomplish
| not only the tasks of the national revolution, but to embark
directly on the transition to socialist revolution as well.
From 1905, Lenin, the leader of the great October Revolu-
tion, was always vigilant about clarifying to Russian
revolutionaries, and to all revolutionaries of the world, the sig-
nificance of struggling to secure working class leadership in
the bourgeois revolution. In his book, Two Tactics of Social-
Democracy in the Democratic Revolution, he emphasized:
«Marxism teaches the proletariat not to keep aloof from the
bourgeois revolution, not to be indifferent to it, not to allow the
leadership of the revolution to be assumed by the bourgeoisie,
but, on the contrary, to take a most energetic part in it, to fight
most resolutely for consistent proletarian democratism, for the
revolution to be carried to its conclusion. We cannot get out of »
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