Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 48)
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the bourgeois-democratic boundaries of the Russian revolu-
tion, but we can vastly extend these boundaries, and within
these boundaries we can and must fight for the interests of the
proletariat, for its immediate needs and for conditions that will
make it possible to prepare its forces for the future complete
victory.» (V.I. Lenin, Selected Works, Progress Publishers,
Moscow, 1975, p,454).
The strategy and tactics of the communist movement for-
mulated by Lenin, concerning the possibility and need for
working class leadership in the bourgeois revolution, are no
longer mere theoretical hypotheses. Rather they have been
confirmed by many experiences in many countries, despite dif-
ferences in the social and economic development and political
conditions. The October Revolution led by the Bolsheviks is a
classical model of the possibility of the working class and its
communist party taking the leadership of the bourgeois revolu-
tion, after the bourgeoisie became incapable, in the conditions
of imperialism, to lead this revolution to its final end. Moreover,
the popular democratic revolutions that occurred in a number
of East European countries were national liberation move-
ments hostile to fascism. These revolutions, which were led by
the working class and its parties, were also democratic, since
their tasks were hostile to the pre-capitalist relations of produc-
tion and the remnants of the Middle Ages. While implementing
the necessary transformations in the bourgeois democratic
framework more deeply and decisively, these revolutions
began the transition to socialist transformation under the
leadership of the working class.
The national democratic revolutions ted by the working
class in Asian countries (such as China, North Korea, Vietnam
and later in Cambodia and Laos) against colonialism,
imperialism and the feudal relations of production, took a
course of economic and social development that prevented the
growth of capitalist relations of production. Thus, they
embarked on socialist development by creating the material
and spiritual conditions, and the forces of production needed to
Yemeni fighters,the spark of the revolution
establish and advance socialist relations of production. For this
reason, the potential of the working class for leading the
national democratic revolution is not a mere theoretical
hypothesis. On the contrary, it became a reality, a practical for-
mula that finds different applications in many countries.
The revolutionary essence of the strategy and tactics of
the democratic revolution has nothing in common with trends
that aim to separate mechanically between the democratic and
the socialist revolution.
The socioeconomic conditions that led to the
impotence of the ruling Arab bourgeoisie in the
national democratic revolution
Due to the weakness of the economic and social develop-
ment in the Arab countries, and consequently of the working
class, the national bourgeoisie assumed the leading role in the
Arab national liberation movement. In the meantime, the work-
ing class participated in this movement to varying degrees.
The bourgeoisie established their own states in most of the
Arab countries, whereas the Zionist-imperialist invasion of
Palestine placed tremendous obstacles in the path of the
Palestinian liberation movement’s endeavours to achieve
national democratic revolution and an independent national
state. The establishment of the aggressive, racist state of ‘Is-
rael’ created a direct threat to the Arab national liberation
movement and its national states in Syria and Egypt.
| Moreover, it became a factor in wearing down their material
and human potentials and hindering their independent
economic and social development.
Nonetheless, the petit and middle bourgeoisie that
assumed the leadership of the national democratic revolution
in some Arab countries, was able to throw off the political,
economic and military fetters of colonialism and achieve a cer-
tain level of economic and social development. This included
building national industry, implementing agrarian reform to
varying degrees, and nationalizing some of the productive sec-
tor and foreign trade, thus establishing a public sector and
improving the level of the working class and all the working
people. These measures remained in the framework of
capitalist development.
The socioeconomic changes that occurred in these Arab
countries were enacted in an atmosphere of revoking democ-
ratic liberties. The regimes deliberately neglected the role of
the popular masses, especially the working class. As a result,
tremendous changes occurred in the social structure of these
countries. These changes allowed for the rapid growth of
bureaucratic, parasitic bourgeois strata, not to mention the
traditional big bourgeoisie. This in turn hindered natural growth
and prevented the achievement of the tasks of the national
democratic revolution for which the Arab people had struggled,
and which the bourgeoisie eventually renounced.
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