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Syrian branch of the Ba'ath Party, in power from 1963 to 2024, above all under Hafez and Bashar al-Assad. Ruling party of a secular authoritarian state with Arab nationalism, a state economy, alliance with Iran and Russia and repression (Hama, civil war).
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Leans further toward autocracy than 84% of the 159 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
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Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
Ultranationalist doctrine of national rebirth that rejects liberalism and Marxism, exalts the totalitarian state and the leadership of a single chief, sees action and violence as a means of regeneration, and treats the nation as a secular religion, with variants beyond the Italian regime that gave it its name.
Spanish authoritarian nationalism of Catholic and syndicalist inspiration, advocating a corporatist state, national unity, and social hierarchy, becoming the ideological pillar of Franco's regime in Spain.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian24%
Dictator of Iraq for over two decades, Saddam Hussein led the Baath Party, fought the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War after invading Kuwait, violently repressed Kurds and Shiites, and was overthrown by the US-led invasion in 2003 and executed in 2006.
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Iraqi branch of the Ba'ath Party, in power from 1968 to 2003 under al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein. A single-party dictatorship with a cult of the leader, Arab nationalism, a state-controlled oil economy, wars against Iran and Kuwait and repression of Kurds and Shiites.
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