Literacy from the view of the Arab Baath Socialist Party

Section: Review Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
25-59

Abstract

The most prominent characteristic of Arab civilization is originality, and what confirms that authenticity is permanence and continuity as well as inclusiveness and unity despite the characteristic of diversity and creativity that appeared in its urban and intellectual aspects. The Arab culture is part of that cultural heritage that the Arab masses have inherited from generation to generation based on the fact that culture is the language of civilized communication between the sons of the Arab nation. This culture was also the result of the Arab masses efforts over the chronological and historical sequence, in addition to their interaction with their environment and with their experience and conflict, which He brought it to the point of cultural maturity, and accordingly, the progress of Arab society was based on its foundation on the contribution of the Arab masses in making it through practicing the struggle with oneself, and with the conflicting values that were prevalent impeding its progress and contributing to the captivity of its strength and creativity, despite that civilized march of the Arab nation and with its possession of values Militancy But the colonial control over the Arab world during the past six centuries was a major reason for the Arab nation to fall into a state of captivity for civilized backwardness, and the most prominent manifestation of which was illiteracy, and therefore the problem of illiteracy was considered one of the historical problems that accompanied the existence of the Arab nation and its historical course. Colonialism and reaction during this control have deliberately consecrated the phenomenon of underdevelopment in the life of the Arab people in a broad and deep way to allow them the opportunity to preserve their interests in the Arab region represented in extorting money and plundering wealth and disrupting the will of the Arab masses, realizing that colonialism and reactionary their existence and continuity require the domination of backwardness and illiteracy as a necessity Colonialism among the popular masses and for this reason it has deliberately extended its period of control by using it as a weapon of oppression and countering "the nationalist and revolutionary spirit, considering that the national spirit will place it in the stage of revolutionary preparation and that the revolution will lead it to independence and unity."

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Ahmad, Y., & محمود. (2025). Literacy from the view of the Arab Baath Socialist Party. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 9(10), 25–59. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.1979.166129