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At first it should be emphasized that thought is a free field, it is the circulation of ideas and principles that may or may not be translated on the ground. But in both cases the ideas continue to circulate, and the discussion revolves around what we do when we read Plato’s Republic, for example, which was written more than two thousand years ago. Therefore, we do not judge ideas as success or failure, but we can judge a party for not generalizing the ideas it adopts or for not putting them into practice. In his article “No, your happiness project did not fail” (see the latest issue of Fnaiq magazine), Ahmed Esfahani blames people for the failure. The Lebanese journalist writes: “What about the responsibility of the people that His Excellency addressed? … What really failed are these generations who ignored the national dangers that lay ahead.” He emphasizes that “the dilemma is the absence of national consciousness and the loss of national identity.” If national identity existed, we would not need to think like Anton Saadeh. Nationalist thought did not exist in the Fertile Crescent or in the Arab world, as it lived for centuries under a religious identity that was transferred to the Ottomans, and they generalized it to this world that they ruled for five centuries. When His Excellency proceeded with his call, he knew perfectly well that he was presenting a new thinking different from anything that had been known in Sociology since the 7th century AD. He knew that it was an almost impossible challenge for society to shift from the priority of religious identity to national identity, where religions and sects were equal before the priority of loyalty to the national homeland in a short period. For this reason, he spoke of “generations not yet born”. This does not mean that we fail to fulfill our duties by preaching, teaching and interpreting, and by establishing intellectual forums, discussions, conferences and discussions to crystallize concepts and educate public opinion. Did the Syrian Social Nationalist Party do that? Did the Syrian social nationalist intellectuals carry out this task, or did they retreat and start attacking people instead of talking to them?
There are no people in the Arab East, because the meaning of the people is closely related to the concept of the nation-state. We live in a state of sectarian and ethnic identities, and we have not entered the modern world based on national identity for many internal and external reasons. Where is the role of the party, with its leaders and intellectuals, in the transfer of secular entities from one state to another?
I can’t blame people and I can’t blame my college students if I don’t pass their exams. When students fail, I always blame the teacher, his failure is the result of his inability to communicate the facts to them, as he sees them of course. All those who believed in the principles of the nation-state and did not educate its defenders, are responsible for the terrible failure that we suffer today. Blaming the “people” who do not exist in the first place except as sects, sects and ethnic groups, is an escape from responsibility.
It was better to admit that we were not trying to change society, but that we were busy working to win power like the rest of the political parties, even though His Excellency called his party “social”, that is, his goal is to change society. .
* University professor
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