The Jordanian arena is teeming and choking with an abundance of parties, reaching a total of (38) parties. I note that stability, stability, continuity, interaction, effectiveness, and social impact are completely absent from them. Their condition resembles that of the shifting desert sand dunes (sand dunes). Withdrawals, resignations, and disputes are its general character. The reason is that they lack the real foundations for establishing parties and their proper inception. This also indicates a clash of interests and pursuit of personal gains.
I would like to discuss how to properly form parties, ensuring their continuity, and playing the required national and nationalist role. It is also necessary to discuss the reasons that lead to the collapse of parties, their exit from the arena, and the loss of their mandated role, whether nationally or nationally.
Definition of a political party:— [[A party is a free organization (of people) united by a goal or (a common political program), striving to participate in the governance of the state, via (elections), and public work through peaceful and democratic methods, aiming to reach positions of power, or (influence it), to implement its political, social, and economic vision]].
In other words: a party is a tool for mobilizing citizens, shaping public opinion, presenting ideas for governance, and is a key element in modern democratic systems.
Therefore, if the party is not free, if the members do not unite under a common goal or political program, and do not strive to participate in the governance of the state, through their public interaction and participation in public work, and if it does not have a mass base enabling it to win elections through proper democratic means to participate in the governance of the state, and influence its policies, directions, and programs through presenting its vision and working towards its implementation, then it loses the characteristics of a real party, and the causes of its existence.
To maintain its independence, the party is supposed to not receive any financial support from any party—so as not to be biased to it and considered as a pretext for interference in its decisions—rather, the party should rely entirely (completely) on (members' subscriptions and their donations), to ensure its neutrality and independence.
More importantly, a party is not established by decree. It appears (as a mass requirement), for framing the struggle of the peoples and organizing it, and directing it to achieve a great national achievement. Thus, there must be an availability of a requirement, or a national or national necessity—the separation between the national and the national is not present except in our Arab homeland— this national and national necessity is what prompts groups of people to (call out), (and popular mobilization) to establish the party and launch it. At the establishment, charismatic convincing figures emerge, carrying profound thought, capable of setting the party's thought and strategies. The goal of establishing the party is the merging of the masses in its melting pot to struggle to achieve a great national or national goal. To demonstrate this: the domination of the Arab homeland under the British and French colonial rule specifically, and the Ottoman colonization before them, had an effect, where it led to the emergence of the Arab parties that carry thought, approach, and a nationalist goal, represented in the liberation of the Arab human, and the liberation of the Arab land from the yoke of the colonial states.
If the party does not possess effective tools to help it play a major public role, it will not be a mass party, and it will not achieve significant national goals in people's lives. Instead, it will be on the fringe, and does not deserve to be called a party, but perhaps it is closer to the name of the association or the guesthouse.
Parties are supposed to be (a mass lifter) to carry and adopt national, nationalist, and sometimes humanitarian issues. The party moves towards achieving them and announces its positions and measures it intends to take, without limits or restrictions.
The elixir of the party is (its political activity), the mass one. Where it must politicize social, economic, and life needs of the community, and it should have an opinion, and a position on them.
The nationalist parties in general, and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party specifically appeared as a reaction to Western colonialism, and the division of the Arab homeland as a result of the British-French Sykes-Picot agreement. Influenced by nationalist and socialist ideas. Aiming to achieve Arab unity—as a response to the division—with the intention of building strong countries, providing social justice, and liberating the economy. However, it collided with the political reality and competition for power, which led to internal conflicts and divisions that toppled them.
As for communism, it appeared at the hands of the German thinker / Karl Marx (1818—1883), who is the spiritual father of communism as a political-economic theory, and called for the workers' revolution (the proletariat) to establish a communal society. Where he laid the theoretical foundations with his friend / Friedrich Engels, in the Communist Manifesto in (1848). Describing communism as a classless system striving for equality through class struggle. / Vladimir Lenin is one of the implementers and developers of it in the twentieth century through Marxism-Leninism.
As for the Muslim Brotherhood party, the reason for its emergence was the deterioration of the political, social, and economic conditions in Egypt, in the twenties of the last century. Where justice was absent, and corruption spread. Thus, the party came as a societal reformation movement to apply Sharia through education, charity work, and preaching, benefiting from a political and intellectual void. But its danger lies in its deviation and adopting globality under British sponsorship. Which distanced it greatly from the goals it was founded on in its beginnings.
The most dangerous risks faced by ideological parties (the nationalist, socialist, and religious parties) are represented in local and external targeting. Where they faced great, fierce, hostile enemies, possessing all the capabilities, qualities, and possibilities to distort them, harm them, and ultimately overthrow them.
The ideological parties committed serious and dangerous mistakes that encompassed their journey, among the most important are:— 1) The centralization of individualism in governance. 2) Adopting violent dictatorship instead of democracy in ruling peoples. 3) Following a closed totalitarian rule characterized by violence. 4) The absolute absence of justice. 5) Distance from socialism and socialist thought.
But the ideological parties had a great benefit represented in (molding the personalities of their members), especially the youth. The Communist Party was at the forefront. Where these parties produced individuals carrying noble values, in addition to their personalities being characterized by seriousness, discipline, integrity, and constant readiness to give, and adherence to the correct, strong path, as the parties trained them to monitor themselves and evaluate their behaviors according to noble standards.
If the parties do not perform their public role effectively, distinctively, and accomplishedly, they lose the reasons for their existence. And the path to collapse and disappearance from the scene becomes an obvious end. And they disappear from the scene without regret. As their absence is not missed, because their existence was not impactful, and they disappear due to the societies' rejection of them for the lack of utility of their existence.
