ABSTRACT
Commentators on Egyptian affairs since 1952 have been perennially in disagreement over the nature and extent of the impact of the revolution on the conduct of national policies. Have the regime's motives and actions been truly the product of revolution, or merely reflections of the realities and opportunities that circumstances have presented to President Nasser and his associates? If revolutionary, then in what sense? Is the logic and orientation of the regime's policies akin in some organic way with the world Communist movement? Is Egypt progressively becoming what Communist analysts can recognize as a ‘socialist’ country? Or are Egyptian policies only incidentally parallel, in limited ways, to Communism or to Soviet positions, and fundamentally destined in a different direction? If so, in what direction?
