عن الماركسية والثورات والمجتمع المدني والطائفية

On Marxism, Revolutions, Civil Society, and Sectarianism

Bidayat

This article interrogates post-Cold War concepts adopted uncritically by the Arab world—from Marxism to the national state, civil society, and sectarianism—calling for a critical vision rooted in Arab reality.

لينين والكومنترن والصهيونية – المؤتمر الثاني للكومنترن آب/اوغسطس ١٩٢٠

Lenin, the Comintern, and Zionism - The Second Congress of the Comintern, August 1920

Comintern 1920: the Zionist project as a prime example of colonial deception — subjecting Arabs to British exploitation "under the pretext of a Jewish state."

لينين والكومنترن والصهيونية

Lenin, the Comintern, and Zionism

The Comintern in 1920: "Under pretext of a Jewish state, Arab workers are subjected to British exploitation" — Britain expelled Arabs then turned them against settlers to monopolize control.

العمال يؤسسون للديمقراطية والعلمانية

Workers Lay the Foundations for Democracy and Secularism

Bidayat

150 years since the Paris Commune — 72 days of direct democracy, secularism, and social justice. Paris lived in the future and bequeathed the hope that paradise on earth is possible.

شهادة في فكر – انطونيو غرامشي

Testimony on the Thought of Antonio Gramsci

They wanted to stop his mind for twenty years — Gramsci produced in prison the theory of "hegemony": ruling-class ideas become "common sense," and law is "the silent force" of coercion.

ماركس في «ربيع الشعوب» ١٨٤٨ – بناء الحقل السياسي والتعلّم من الممارسة

Marx in the "Spring of Nations" 1848 - Building the Political Field and Learning from Practice

Bidayat

While media superficially compared the 'Arab Spring' to the 1848 revolutions without genuine study, this article reclaims Marx's engagement with the 'Spring of Peoples' to offer a profound analysis of revolutionary complexity, class representation, and the role of the state.

حوار مع فواز طرابلسي عن تجربته الفكرية والثورات وإعادة تأسيس اليسار

A Dialogue with Fawwaz Traboulsi on His Intellectual Experience, Revolutions, and Refounding the Left

Al Jadeed

Fawwaz Traboulsi asserts that the Arab revolutions were radical popular explosions, not social movements, and that the left needs re-founding to confront neoliberalism and sectarianism, which deepen disparities.

انطونيو غرامشي – ملاحظات عن التاريخ الايطالي – فترة النهضة القومية

Antonio Gramsci - Notes on Italian History - The National Renaissance Period

What matters in Gramsci goes beyond Italy: state, hegemony, and revolutions that cannot be read through class alone, yet make no sense without it.

العمل والعمال في الثورات العربية

Labor and Workers in the Arab Revolutions

As-Safir

I am a worker, not a slave — the millions in the squares are workers and unemployed, not middle class, and Islamists replace rights with charity.

خمس أطروحات في الماركسية المعاصرة

Five Theses on Contemporary Marxism

Capitalism, with its deep structural contradictions, does not kill Marxism but renews its necessity, pushing for a re-imagination of revolution and social alternatives.

طرابلسي: بالتمايز فقط يعود اليسار

Traboulsi: Only Through Distinction Can the Left Return

Ayn Al-Shabab

Interview: Castro has become the capitalists' reference and the left still ashamed of socialism. The moment is ripe — but it won't wait. The left must return fully equipped.

تصفية حسات مع التجربة السوفييتية: تقييم ودروس

Settling Accounts with the Soviet Experience: An Assessment and Lessons

Bidayat

Settling scores with the Soviet experience: a project that claimed equality by sacrificing freedom, demonstrating that democracy is a fundamental condition for socialism, not an addition to it.

التجربة السوفييتية: ما لها وما عليها

The Soviet Experience: Its Merits and Its Faults

Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this text offers a balance sheet of the Soviet experience, drawing essential lessons for those who still believe in the possibility of transcending capitalism towards a new world.

وأثر التحولات الراهنة في الفكر العربي المعاصر

The Impact of Current Transformations on Contemporary Arab Thought

What blocks understanding is not a lack of cultural explanations but their excess: “culturalism” erases social reality and reduces politics to identity and religion.