| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Parties and Ideas that Don't Die or Change |
| 2021-04-08 |
| [ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Lebanese Kataeb Party has recently decided to amend its name. The party founded in 1936 highlighted its other name the Social Democratic Party at the expense of the name it has historically been associated with. According to observers, two factors compelled this change: the need to be present in civil society and take part in its activities, and the need to take distance from Francoist connotations of the name adopted in the thirties and the Death Eater orientation imposed on the party in the seventies. This change is a brave step forward, but only through the interpretation of its indications and a revision of its history and its reasons is the mission accomplished and this step complete. Concepts and the terms that refer to them, like other living things, are born, develop and die or change. Those that don’t die, don’t change and are described as immortal are of little vigor, if not totally lifeless, in the first place. This is the case, for example, with the famous "immortal mission" articulated by the founder of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Michel Aflaq, who considered it the "one Arab nation’s" most important commodity. |
| Posted by:Fred |