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From: Left or Right Depending on Your Coordinates
Date: 09 May 1999
Time: 10:07:02
Remote Name: 166.62.74.139
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Mr. FAK,
In a nutshell, I am interested in an analysis on the reforms that took place in SSNP on the hands of Marxists as claimed in the first paragraph below. I am more interested, under the staus quo, based on the second paragraph, to know more about the SSNP factions that are on the left end of the political spectrum and their correlations to Marxism in light of the fact that after I visited the link you recommended, the site states verbatim "...a certain correlation exists between all ideologies no matter how far apart they may be..."
This issue is of utmost importance to Lebanese Leftists who would resist Fascist Right-Wing SSNPers on this forum.
Extracted from the main post "...In the 1950s, although still banned, the SSNP renewed its activities fairly openly. During the 1958 disturbances, the SSNP militia supported President Shamun, who rewarded it by authorizing it to operate legally. But in December 1961, when another attempted coup by SSNP members failed, it was again outlawed and almost 3,000 of its members imprisoned. In prison, the party underwent serious ideological reform when certain Marxist and pan-Arab concepts were introduced into the party's formerly right-wing doctrine."
Extracted from the main post "...Since the 1960s, the party has become more leftist. Most of its members joined the Lebanese National Movement and fought alongside the PLO throughout the 1975 War. But during this period the party suffered internal divisions and defections, and since then party unity has been elusive. In 1987 there were at least four separate factions claiming to be the authentic inheritors of Saadah's ideology. The two most important were led by Issam Mahayri, a Sunni, and Jubran Jurayj, a Christian. Each faction was trying to settle disputes by means of violence."