Can anyone here explain Arab Socialism ?

[tradeunionsupporter]

Can anyone here explain Arab Socialism ? It doesn't seem to be based on Marxism or Atheism or on Materialism am I correct ? Who the founders of Arab Socialism ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_socialism

[seventeethdecember2016]

It has more to do with Nationalism and Pan-Arabism. I don't know the dialectics of it though.

[Tukhachevsky]

So called arab socialism is connected with movements like nasserism and pan-arabism/pan-islamism; just see the colors of the flags of Palestine Authority, Lybia, Ba'ath party, etc.
The ruling party of Syria is social-nationalist (an euphemism to national-socialism)...
The arab nationalistic socialism seems very much like a cold war funded enterprise of Soviet Union and have many allegations of racism.

[Rafiq]

It's a loose term. It's definitely secular, but it's usage varies.

Ba'athism originated as a rural petty bourgeois ideology, and then, Nasserism, which is Bourgeois social democracy.

It eventually became a means of gaining arms from Eastern Block.

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[wsg1991]

hafeth assad ( Bachar assad father's ) have overthrown the real party leadership and forced Michel Afleq to leave the country , and has proven it's more Shi'ite than Pan arabic


Nasser was not a social democrat , since it was a military dictatorship !
the free officers , did nationalized some of the economy mainly foreign assets , the ex royal family assets ( which where huge and later distributed on peasantry in a land reform ) and some of the private sector (lead some bourgeois to bankruptcy) but private capital remained of but there was important state sector and important state intervention in the economy ( state capitalism ) , I should mention the Aswan dam

[Dave B]

The Trot Cliff wrote some stuff on it, perhaps, not endorsing it in ayway;

Tony CliffThe struggle in the Middle East

(1967/1990)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1990/10/struggleme.htm


South Yemen was a so called 'Marxist' state and the party still exists I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Socialist_Party

[tradeunionsupporter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_and_Islam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_and_Islam

[tradeunionsupporter]

Did Nasser get his Socialist ideas from pre Marxist Socialism ?

[wsg1991]

no , i don't think so ,

[Book O'Dead]

Can anyone here explain Arab Socialism ? It doesn't seem to be based on Marxism or Atheism or on Materialism am I correct ? Who the founders of Arab Socialism ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_socialism

This is from the wiki link you provided:

"For its adherents, Arab socialism was a necessary consequence of the quest for Arab unity and freedom, as only a socialist system of property and development would overcome the social and economic legacy of imperialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism) and colonialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism)."

If that is correct then it's similar to other 'socialisms' that emerged in other post-colonial societies and is commonly known in Latin America as "Tercermundismo" of "Thirdworldism".

[tradeunionsupporter]

Thanks for the answer.