99% the only reason anyone gives a shit is because all their radicalisation material seems directly lifted from Baathism. They're trying to nip this in the bud before the nazis fully remember martyrdom as praxis. i'd expect no less from the people's consulate of Boise.
Well, others might have. I marched in Toronto in March 2003 in sub-zero freezing weather, shouting that the invasion of Iraq would "open the gates of hell". Given that Baathism and Salafi-jihadism had a bastard child in Daish, I think my prediction holds up.
That is so mature of you to use Isntreal instead of Israel. You must think you are clever. By the way, Baathism and Palestinian ideology is inherently fascist. Hamas is a fascist organization.
He can also look at 1980s Baathism and our expectations of anti-Communist leaders in South America. HR would maybe want him to find differences among those, but it’s a fairly consistent picture.
Oh yes definitely. Even his green book has some really good ideas especially in terms of how to apply socialism to Muslim majority countries. Baathism was an incoherent mess, and was obvious why it failed, but Gaddafi got closer than most to articulating something that might actually work.
Right, so if that’s the case I don’t know the benefit of labeling it fascism when it covers a spectrum from Jim Crow to Naziism to Baathism to Peronism and beyond, especially given the authoritarian models left outside of that “tent” using such a broad definition confuses more than it clarifies
The solidarity that people in Syria continue to show for Palestine is some of the most powerful and important to note. Free Palestine from Zionism. Free Syria from Baathism (Assad). The two go together.
Baathism is also theoretically explicitly secular and socialist, if not in practice. Just weird all around.
Israel is an established ally in the region, which was full of geopolitical enemies and has a long legacy of anti-western ideology - Sunni/Shia Islamism, Arab socialism, baathism/fascism, etc. The US has a pro-democracy/capitalism/ally FP. And crazy Christians obsessed with the end times.