The Progressive Socialist Party responds to OTV

The Media Commission of the Progressive Socialist Party responded to “an attempt to intercept the martyr teacher Kamal Jumblatt’s words on federalism,” with a statement that said: “We do not intend to hide the pleasure of seeing each other on the OT channel. On “TV,” an excerpt from a historical seminar by martyr master Kamal Jumblatt was repeatedly shown at the beginning of his main newsletters. The political ideology on which this media was raised was never one of the promoters or sympathizers of the ideas of Kamal Jumblatt. Rather, it arose from the depths of opposing theories. This time, even if his aim is not innocent, but rather trying to portray a completely false image that he was in favor of federalism in its divisive sense in Lebanon, this nevertheless sends us more insistence on correctness of approach and the thought of this great man, whom even opposing means are compelled to use to prove a point of view. .

This is in shape. In terms of content, the station departed from the earlier conception and design of a paragraph of speech that Kamal Jumblatt delivered in 1956 at a conference entitled “Lebanon in its reality and its perspectives” from a series of lectures given by the great thinker at the Lebanese symposium organized by the late Michel Asmar. In this lecture, which we invite everyone without exception to read and explore its depths, Kamal Jumblatt describes literary beauty, political rhetoric, broad science, historical indulgence, philosophical, spiritual and social analysis, geographical refutation and a classification economic integral, the reality of Lebanon, with what it contains in terms of a meeting of antecedents and families. The idea is cultural, religious, social and economic, as it is in terms of the political system since the beginning of Lebanon, and it paints with infinite precision what the Lebanese aspire to today.

Kamal Jumblatt, in exposing this integrated explanation, spoke about the Lebanese reality as it is, saying that “Lebanon, since it combines to some extent between the Christian-Western heritage and the Arab-Islamic heritage, may be the best instrument to measure the reality of civilization and the crises of progress and civilization in the Arab East “. Lebanon is a true natural, geographical entity, which places the “administrative division” as one of the “reasons for stability and administrative and political discipline”, without ever speaking of any other type of geographical, sectarian or financial division, than when others They proposed it, not only Kamal Jumblatt opposed it, but He defended himself.

It is true that Kamal Jumblatt, also describing the reality, said that Lebanon “constitutes a de facto federation of peoples, regions and natural geographical divisions”, and between Mount Lebanon and the coastal cities, between residents and expatriates, and between families spiritual, but he went on to say in the same text that “Lebanon really exists to be a decentralized country.” And while he uses the description used by some (the country of “cantons”), he places the word in double quotes to indicate his quote, and adds to confirm that “no rule in Lebanon has been successful except the rule of decentralization” . He then explains his intention with decentralization saying: “But successful political democracy in the end is not only supported by a strong and developed anchor of local municipal democracy”, which means that it was decisive in terms of administrative decentralization and local municipality . This is due to his more precise description in another part of the conference when he says that Lebanon “despite the contradictions, negotiations, contradictions and diversities that it contains and embraces, was and continues to be a unit of life, a unit of a life common … It may be in that secret and the reason that makes the contradictions and paradoxes. In the end, all diversities, differences and crises find for themselves a realistic, harmonious and reasonable arrangement, and a synthesis in which the two sides of the opposite pole and the opposite pole are preserved in the process of development of the real life that always it combines contradictions and then destroys them to adopt another more harmonious contradiction, and never starting from the opposite, as was imagined Ignorant of the canons of the course of history and the flow of life “.

Kamal Jumblatt continues, explaining further: “The unity of life, the unity of the economy, the unity of life, the unity of mixing and participation is always the dominant one, the victor …”.

In exposing what he seeks from the Lebanese, Kamal Jumblatt says in 1956: “They may realize one more day than they realize now, that they are the first children of this unity of life, the unity of the economy and the society and the intertwining of the environment, before they were Christian, Sunni, Druze, Shiite and other sects. Religion will come later. According to this sharing and this intertwining in the unity of life … If people sometimes disagree on the goals of the Hereafter, they can only agree in the end, because the unity of life that unites them, which does not distinguish between a Christian merchant and a Muslim consumer is much stronger than accepting this differentiation. “.

As for when Kamal Jumblatt spoke about the “spirit of federalism”, which he said “ensures internal stability and satisfies sectarian and ethnic minorities, and composes and connects the diversity of sectors of the nation, these sectarian and ethnic minorities must obtain the first primitive existential guarantees, otherwise the state will face problems and crisis “. Countless numbers, including the weakness of the nation’s existence and permanent instability. He spoke of some Arab countries that he himself refused to enter his great prison, and in what he described as a “slave society”, and advised them to follow the example of the diversity of the Lebanese “mosaic” and to stop the policy of “beheading” “.

Kamal Jumblatt concluded by stating that “it was discovered that Lebanon is the country of reason”, and that “the obstacle and inhibitor is a deficiency or lack of political maturity, a lack or lack of civilizing maturity, and also a lack or absence of the correct democratic spirit, and this Isolism in thought, isolationism in economics, isolationism in narrow patriotism in terms of humanity and the Arab world, “indicating that Lebanon” needs a broad organization and decentralization in administration and intense supervision and inspection at the same time, “and that” this spirit of participation … should be strengthened. “In Lebanon, perhaps the way to eliminate sectarian fanaticism and the spirit of separation. This spirit is, in fact , the best in Lebanon. “

It would be preferable for the theorists of today and the illusions of yesterday and tomorrow to follow Jumblatt’s perfection in its entirety, and have a sophisticated and rational discussion in which we delve into the thought of the master martyr that Lebanon today urgently needs to get out of swamps of exclusivity and arrogance, and around crises that re-emerge with a suicidal spirit in various ways. But it comes from old and outdated covenants, and Kamal Jumblatt described it as an “ignorant obsession.” Beware, then, beware of this “ignorant obsession.”