PEMIKIRAN KASSIM AHMAD TERHADAP SOSIALISME: SUATU TINJAUAN AWAL, TAHUN 1968 – 1984

This paper discusses the thought of Kassim Ahmad toward socialism. Kassim Ahmad is one of the famous political figure of socialism in the 1970s. Indirectly, he saw socialism as an ideology that is suitable to be used as a concept of his struggle in Malaya at that time. Kassim Ahmad establishment of the concept of socialism became clear when he declared the philosophy of scientific socialism as a philosophy of Parti Rakyat Malaysia in the 1970s. However, after 1975, he began writing tends to elements of Islamism eventually make Islam the ideology of his struggles until now.