Summary
Leon Trotsky’s theory, drawn on by Jabra Nicola, that national liberation struggles must also challenge the role of local capitalist classes, as presented in the Conclusion of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1741-1760). The Introduction’s notes credit Tony Cliff’s “Permanent Revolution” alongside Rodinson for the book’s treatment of stagism (lines 1876-1880).
Details
- It is contrasted with the strategy of the Stalinized communist parties and some Arab nationalist organizations, which argued for an anti-imperialist front subordinating the working class’s independent interests to the national project (lines 1748-1760).
- Nicola and Moshe Machover (1969) are quoted in its support: imperialist domination in the region “cannot be shattered without overthrowing those junior partners of imperialist exploitation that constitute ruling classes in the Arab world” (lines 1745-1758).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Moshe Machover, Socialism, Imperialism