If we agree that the party system is the basis of the true democratic system., then forming artificial parties deprives the citizens of the means of popular struggle and of the means of true party education. Thus we see that our parliamentary systems lack dynamism and the ability to develop the conditions and adjust them. The most democratic of our systems is the one that is more prepared to absorb these facts and is more active in finding the right solutions, in order that the people can exercise true democracy in an atmosphere of free expression. In a long conversation with Mrs. Edith Summerskell, the Labourite M.P., I told her that what you imagine as being socialism in our country and the Arab world is not really so. Whereas socialism in our Arab world is a dress imported from abroad to cover the romantic, sentimental trends that are incongruous with reason.
Socialism here is a paint to cover a piebald body.
That is why we find that socialism in the West always represented a strong barrier in the face of communism because it is founded on the national and political heritage of the West, while it brought forth economic reforms for the decaying capitalistic system. Socialism in the Arab world, on the other hand, was the necessary preliminary stage and an actual bridgehead for communist infiltration, because it is adopted, imported and did not emanate from the problems of our societies. What is more, it rests or emotional or traditional basis which is incongruous with social resuscitation. So it adopted from Marxism the principle of class warfare, and the Baath party declared in its economic program that it sides with the workers class in its struggle against the exploitation of the other classes in society. When a party takes the class warfare as a point of departure, it ceases to be a nationalist or socialist party, but will have a communistic attitude.