去年春天,在叙利亚议会的预算争论中,右翼人民党提议对资本课以重税,以防止资本主义的扩展。议会中的唯一的共产党代表K·巴格达什反对这一提议。他说我们的目标不应是防止,而应鼓励资本的扩展。他着重指出,叙利亚的压倒一切的需要是要增加工业生产。这一事件指出了阿拉伯目前的一个看来仿佛是矛盾的论点:社会主义的观念是这样的流行,以致 Last spring, during the budget debate in the Syrian parliament, the right-wing People’s Party proposed a heavy tax on capital classes to prevent the expansion of capitalism. K · Baghdad, the only Communist representative in the parliament, opposed the proposal. He said our goal should not be to prevent, but to encourage the expansion of capital. He emphasized that Syria’s overriding need is to increase industrial production. This incident points to a seemingly contradictory argument that is currently being made in the Arab world: the concept of socialism is so popular that