The socialist experience in southern Yemen 1967-1990

evaluation study

Abstract

The political development of developing countries differs from developed countries. Developed countries such as Britain, for example, developed objectively, as the needs of society preceded the desire for change, and then change came partially and gradually, with the aim of meeting the needs of society. While the developing countries and South Yemen are one of them, development took the form of a pre-model, where the political elites took ready-made models, tried or untested in other societies, and projected them on a different social reality, with the aim of bringing about comprehensive and radical change, according to which the structures would be reformulated. economic, social, cultural, and political institutions, and pushing them along a path that sharply and blatantly contradicts the history, course, and culture of those societies, without thinking about the results and repercussions that could result from the process of immersing a ready-made model in a different social reality, the existence of which constitutes a sharp turn. In the life, development, and march of a society, many of its components may not find that they can absorb, accept, or follow this model. From this point of view, the researcher will discuss in the pages of this research the experience from three axes, which are the subjective components of the experience, in order to determine the existence or absence of these components, and the extent of their sufficiency and solidity as components of the experience in the event that they exist. And how to build and establish the experience, and how the experience developed, and the obstacles and dilemmas that stood in the way of its development, which led to it in the end.