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Single party created by Nasser in 1962 as the vehicle of Arab socialism. It nationalized the economy, carried out land reform, defended pan-Arabism and non-alignment, and repressed Islamists and communists until Sadat's opening.
Political axes
Leans further toward autocracy than 73% 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.
Ideological proximity
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Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo doctrine joining economic nationalism, a centralized state, state-tied unions, labor law and state firms such as Petrobras, against the regional oligarchies and liberalism.
Nationalist and syndicalist current that rejects liberalism and Marxism, advocating national unity, corporatist organization of labor, authoritarian social justice, and popular mobilization around the state.
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.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian23%
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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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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