Ba'athism

Ba'athism, also known as Saddamism or Assadism (depending if it's Iraq or Syria respectively), is an Authoritarian unity, Arab Nationalist, culturally variable, and Anti-Zionist Ideology. In the political compass he is close to Authoritarian center, towards the left. He believes in a unified Arab state led by a revolutionary secular government under a vanguard party. He is very anti-pornography, hates wahhabists and theocracies, and despises (western) imperialism.

Creation
The origins of Ba'athism began with Zaki al-Arsuzi and Michel Aflaq. While Aflaq, Bitar and Arsuzi were never members of the same organization, they are considered the founders of Baathism. Arsuzi formed the Arab Baath Party in 1940 and his views influenced Aflaq, who alongside junior partner Salah al-Din al-Bitar founded the Arab Ihya Movement in 1940 that later renamed itself the Arab Baath Movement in 1943. Though Aflaq was influenced by him, Arsuzi did not cooperate with Aflaq's movement. Arsuzi suspected that the existence of the Arab Ihya Movement, which occasionally titled itself "Arab Baath", was part of an imperialist plot to prevent his influence over the Arabs by creating a movement of the same name. When Arsuzi left the League of Nationalist Action (LNA) party in 1939 after its leader died and the party had fallen into disarray, he founded the short-lived Arab National Party in 1939 and dissolved it later that year. On 29 November 1940, Arsuzi founded the Arab Baath.

1940s
A significant conflict and turning point in the development of Baathism occurred when Arsuzi's and Aflaq's movements sparred after the 1941 coup d'etat by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani and the Anglo-Iraqi War. Aflaq's movement supported al-Gaylani's government and the Iraqi government's war against the British and organized volunteers to go to Iraq and fight for the Iraqi government. However, Arsuzi opposed al-Gaylani's government, considering the coup to be poorly-planned and a failure. At this point, Arsuzi's party lost members and support that transferred to Aflaq's movement. Subsequently, Arsuzi's direct influence in Arab politics collapsed after Vichy French authorities expelled him from Syria. The Arab Baath Movement's next major political action was its support of Lebanon's war of independence from France in 1943. The Arab Baath Movement did not solidify for years until it held its first party congress in 1947, when it merged with the Arab Socialist Party led by Akram al-Hawrani to establish the Arab Socialist Baath Party.

[[File:Hafez al-Assad.png]] Hafez al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000) was a Syrian statesman and military officer who served as President of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. Hafez participated in the 1963 Syrian coup d'état which brought the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power. After serving as defense minister for a few years he initiated another coup which ousted the de facto leader Salah Jadid and appointed himself as leader of Syria. Hafez imposed change on the Ba'ath government when he took power, by imposing capitalism and limited liberalization of the economy thus moving the Syrian Ba'ath Party away from its socialist roots.

As President, Hafez organized state services along sectarian lines the Sunnis became the heads of political institutions, while the Alawites took control of the military, intelligence, and security apparatuses. Even though Hafez sided with the Soviet Union in the cold war against Israel, he prosecuted and repressed leftists such as supporters of Salah Jadid, at home. Hafez's policies indirectly led to the establishment of a "new elite" as state officials used their positions for personal gain resulting in spikes of corruption.

From the 1970s to the early 1980s the Alawite Dynasty found its power and grip over Syria challenged by a series of revolts and armed insurgencies of Sunni Islamists, mainly members of the Muslim Brotherhood which aimed to overthrow the secular Ba'athist dictatorship. The Islamist uprising reached its climax in the 1982 Hama uprising and massacre, which resulted in at least 2,000 casualties.

From 1 May 1991, the Assad government would further liberalize the Syrian economy and encourage foreign investment from the Gulf States which would help with various infrastructure and development projects.

[[File:Neo-Baath.png]] '''Bashar al-Assad
Following his assumption of power in 2000, Bashar al-Assad would continue to liberalize the Syrian economy and encourage growth in the private sector. In 2001, private banking in Syria had been legalized for the first time under Ba'athist rule.

Syrian Civil War - Due to a combination of Bashar's domestic policies and the agenda of foreing powers like the US, Turkey, and The Gulf States, opposition to the Assad dictatorship began to mount leading into a full on civil war when the Syrian opposition splinttered along the lines of  Islamic Democrats,  Sunni fundementalists,  National Liberals and sometimes, even  Jihadists. As time passed, within the northern region of the nation, many of the Kurdish minority, having felt neglected and ignored by the Syrian government, unified under the ideology and Democratic Confederalism and later also got involved in the war under the administration of the "autonomous region" of  Rojava. The Islamic State got involved in 2013 but lost most of its territory by 2017. The Free Syrian Army also came into existense as a loose collection of militant factions within the  Islamic Democrats without any singular unifying ideology, however were all unified by the desire to overthrow the Syrian Ba'athists and Assad. Eventually, overtime, the large-support of the opposition eventually began to die out within the population, which has led to a large amount of rebel-owned territory being lost, with many rebel factions that are currently still active in the civil-war either being allied or ideologically aligned with hard-core Islamist fundementalists,  Jihadists,  Pro-Turkish Insurgents, or having integrated themselves within the administration of  Rojava and the SDF, with those who did the ladder tended to follow more liberal-leaning ideologies, with many factions following ideologies such as moderate Syrian Patriotism, secularism,  Democracy, anti-racism, or even alligning with the ideology of  Democratic Confederalism, with certain rebel factions including but not limiting, the  The Army of Revolutionaries, The Kurdish Front, The Seljuk Brigade, Northern Democratic Brigade, Northern Sun Battalion, Idlib Revolutionaries Brigade, Jaysh al-Salam, and the Euphrates Jarabulus Battalions to name a few most well known SDF-FSA groups. Assyrian SDF allied groups such as the Syriac Union Party hold their own ideology of Dawronoye which takes great influence from Democratic Confederalism while promoting Nationalism and autonomy for indigenous Assyrians, as well as being affiliated with certain moderate opposition groups such as the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change. During the history of Assad and his rule, he has been criticized during his leadership for being ruthless in his efforts to defeat the opposition. For example, he has been widely regarded for being responsible for numerous war crimes during the civil conflict, such as with the Ghouta chemical attacks in 2013, where bombs and sarin gas was used indiscriminately in civilian populations, as well as the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack in 2017 where similar methods of bombing, airstrikes, and sarin gas were used leading to numerous civilian casualties. For more information of war crimes done by the Syrian Opposition, see Islamic Democracy *wip*

[[File:Cball-Iraq.png]] Iraq [[File:Hussein.png]]
Saddamism, an Iraqi form of Ba'athism, came to power in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was established as a dictator in 1968 by the Iraqi-dominated faction of the Ba'athist party due to the 17 July Revolution. Saddam also entered a war against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War, but almost lost until Saudi aid came. Saddam then made peace with Iran. In 1990, Saddamist Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait after a 2-day campaign. This is met with distaste from the international community which led to an invasion in 1991. Iraq eventually loses the war but Saddam Hussein retains power, but the country is stripped of a lot of its resources. After feeling betrayed by Arab nations from the war, Saddam started to shift away from Arab nationalism to implementing more Islamic laws in Iraq (which would later be called the "Faith Campaign"). Iraq was invaded by a US-led international coalition in 2003, who took down the Saddamist regime, disbanded the Iraqi Republican Guard, and attempted to establish a republic. This republic would fail and lead to years of violence all the way to 2017 in the Iraq War that including Khomeinists,  Democratic Confederalists,  Jihadists, and (after 2013) the  Islamic State. Several Saddamists and Ba'athists would attempt to regain power in Iraq during the Iraq War until 2006 when Saddam Hussein was executed by the US government, ending the Ba'athist age.

Today, pro-Saddam Ba'athist parties still remain, although unpopular with limited influence in Iraqi politics.

Beliefs
The Arab nation is a united Arab state that would would transform the Arab world politically, economically, intellectually and morally. Liberty is freedom and would be ensured by a Baath party which was not elected by the populace because the party had the common good at heart. Ba'athism likes socialism because they think it would be necessary for the Arabs to achieve an Arab state. Islam would be admired by all but not imposed onto the state and society.

Personality and Behavior
Ba'athism is very anti-pornography. Whenever someone goes to watch porn he pops out of nowhere and says stuff like "YOU HAVE BEEN ASSADED!!!". He hates Wahhabists and theocracies. He sees them as a threat and often goes on rants on how they are "fake muslims". He despises imperialism and imperialists. He gets very violent whenever he sees one. He hates being called just another ideology based around Authoritarianism. "I AM NOT HIM! WE ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE! IT'S A LIE BY Neoconservatism AGAIN!", he says in a very deep voice.

How to Draw
Ba'ath_flag.svg Ba'athism's design is based on the flag of the Arab Socialist Baʽath Party.
 * 1) Draw a ball with eyes and fill it white
 * 2) Draw a black stripe on top
 * 3) Draw a green stripe on the bottom
 * 4) Draw something like a Beret and add the Baathist Iraq Coat of Arms on it
 * 5) Draw a red triangle in the far left middle of the ball, and you're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Absoc.png]] Arab Socialism - My father. I have more radical and extreme views however he taught me a lot and we agree on many stuff.
 * [[File:Strato.png]] Stratocracy - Literally me!
 * [[File:Soc.png]] Socialism - I'm a socialist but not the marxist kind. The whole idea with a stateless moneyless society is just insane. I'm fine with a one-party dictatorship with nationalized oil and minerals.
 * [[File:Dengf.png]] Dengism - Fellow authcap in denial. Have been one of my main arms suppliers since the 1980s. Why did you arm Khomeini too during the Iran-Iraq War
 * [[File:Nazcap-Hat.png]] National Capitalism - Wagner Group is based!
 * [[File:Nazbol.png]] National Bolshevism - This is the way. Let's destroy capitalist globalists and zionists together.
 * [[File:Juche.png]] Juche - Juche gang! Hereditary dictatorship is based!
 * [[File:Chavismo.png]] Chavismo - My best friend in the west! Stay strong Maduro.
 * [[File:Castro.png]] Castroism - My second best friend in the west!
 * [[File:Putin.png]] Putinism - Friendly pal. My Syrian side strongly supports you. I have to say, thank you very much for saving Assad from [[File:Jihad-2.png]] Jihadism and [[File:Necon.png]] Neocon terrorists.
 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism-Leninism - Hey, uh, I'm not too keen on the whole Communism stuff, but as an ally, you rock! You also gave me plenty of support. Together we will fight Western imperialists and Jihadists!
 * [[File:Bundis.png]] Bundism - Finally, a good jewish ideology!
 * [[File:Tito.png]] Titoism - I stood by your grave at your funeral longer than the others for a reason.Rest in Peace, Tito!
 * [[File:AnEn.png]] Anti-Environmentalism - Emissions due to me burning kuwaiti oil are the price worth paying for uniting the arab world.
 * [[File: Totalitarian.png]] Totalitarianism - Wait... Why is this put in allies? No no no, we are TOTALLY DIFFERENT! That is just a lie spread by [[File:Necon.png]]! F*ck him for spreading such obvious false pro-western CIA propaganda.  Proceeds to bomb civilians. 

Frenemies

 * [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism - My Iraqi side hated you but my Syrian side have been warming up to free-market capitalism since the 1990s.
 * [[File:Authcap.png]] Authoritarian Capitalism - Good trading partner for the most part and my Syrian side have been you in denial for the past 3 decades.
 * [[File:Authdem.png]] Authoritarian Democracy - One party is enough but my Syrian side have been forced to accept some form of controlled opposition in recent times to give an impression of democracy.
 * [[File:Klep.png]] Kleptocracy - Litterally me! You were one of the main causes to the Syrian civil war.
 * [[File:Necon.png]] Neoconservatism - Western devil who've been trying to pit my Iraqi side and Syrian side against each other throughout the course of history. He aided the Iraqi Baath Party to supress communists after the ramadan revolution and gave Saddam weapons to counter Iran during 1970s-1980s. Syria was part of the Gulf War coalition to kick out Saddam's troops from Kuwait. Then he invaded Iraq and disbanded the Baath party which led to the rise of Isis. In the early stages of the War on Terror, Bashar allowed him to use Syria for his torture program. Then he had the nerve fund the Syrian Opposition to seize Syrian oil fields. And then we became allies again to defeat Isis. You truly like to create your own enemies so you can defeat them later.
 * [[File:3way.png]] Third Way - Similar to above. Tony Blair was part of the US-led coalition to topple Saddam but he had good relations with Assad. I'm glad that Barack Obama eventually came to his senses and ended Timber Sycamore to focus on Isis instead but Hillary Clinton is just deranged.
 * [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Neoliberalism - Bashar reluctantly embraced the free-market in the early 2000s to appease the west. Privatized education and healthcare and legalized private banks. However the civil war made him reconsider your policies.
 * [[File:Antijap.png]] Anti-Japaneseism - Fellow Anti-Weeb, although I don't have anything wrong with Japanese people, but I do with your ideology.
 * [[File:Christy.png]] Christian Theocracy - You might not be muslim but you're better than the zionists.
 * [[File:Muslim 2.png]] Islamic Theocracy - Just because I respect his [[File: Christy.png]] right to exist doesn't mean I'm an infidel!
 * [[File:Khom.png]] Khomeinism - My Iraqi side wants to kill you, but my Syrian side loves you. At least we both hate [[File: Necon.png]] Neoconservatism.
 * [[File:Fash.png]] Fascism - A useful ally, but we have radically different goals. At least we both hate Israel.
 * [[File:Strasser.png]] Strasserism - Same as above, but is socialist like me. We both hate [[File:Zio.png]] Zionists.
 * [[File:Libcon.png]] Libertarian Conservatism - We're ideologically very different. However, Ron Paul thinks Assad must stay, so you're ba'ased.
 * [[File:UKUKIP.png]] Faragism - Similar to above, you're generally non-interventionist, so that means you don't really want me toppled either. I'll let you pass.
 * [[File:Socliber.png]] Social Libertarianism - At least you oppose military interventions as well. Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are based as they exposed US war crimes in Iraq and Syria.
 * [[File:Altr.png]] Alt-Right - Thanks for your support. But get off the internet, it's degenerating your brain.

Enemies

 * [[File:Demsocstar.png]] Democratic Socialism and [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - I jailed Riad al-Turk for 20 years but had to release him during the Damascus spring to give an impression of democracy.
 * [[File:MuslimBrotherhood.png]] Muslim Brotherhood - Hama Massacre go brrrrrr...
 * [[File:Trot.png]] Trotskyism and [[File:Hoxha.png]]Hoxhaism - The two most obnoxious commies in history. Your ideological purism get me on my nerves.
 * [[File:Zio.png]] Zionism - Oppressor of Palestinian Muslim Brothers and the reason why Middle East is in conflict. Can't Mossad the Assad!
 * [[File:Labzion.png]] Labour Zionism - We could have been brothers but you had to be Zionist.
 * [[File:Bidenism.png]] Bidenism - Stop bombing me you senile bastard!
 * [[File:Trumpism.png]] Trumpism - I had my hopes for you as you used to condemn military interventions but then you proceeded to bomb me!
 * [[File:Macron.png]] Macronism - Same as above!
 * [[File:Jihad.png]] Jihadism - Leave. We don't need your dirty theocracy on our land!
 * [[File:Cball-FSA.png]] Free Syrian Army - Rebel scum!
 * [[File:Demcon.png]] Democratic Confederalism - Leave.
 * [[File:dawronoyeicon.png]] Dawronoye - Why can't you Assyrians stop complaining and supporting those rebel groups? At least DemCon wasn't as pro-rebel.
 * [[File:Kahan.png]] Kahanism - "Greater Israel"? Oh no, you don't.
 * [[File:Ottoman.png]] Neo-Ottomanism - NO, YOU F*CK OFF, ERDOĞAN!
 * [[File:Reform.png]] Reformism - F*ck you, only the revolutionary vanguard will succeed!
 * [[File:Neobert.png]] Neo-Libertarianism - Aren't you just [[File:Necon.png]] Neoconservatism again but Libertarian?
 * [[File:Satan.png]] Satanic Theocracy - You are literally worshiping the Devil, still better than Zionism [[File:Zio.png]]!
 * [[File:IslamCap.png]] Islamic Capitalism - Greedy Zionist-bootlicking capitalist who is also the reason the Middle East is in conflict!

Literature

 * One Common Trench or Two Opposite Sides? by Saddam Hussein

Wikipedia

 * Ba'athism
 * Ba'ath Party
 * Saddam Hussein
 * Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
 * Ba'athist Iraq
 * Hafez al-Assad
 * Bashar al-Assad
 * Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)
 * Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
 * Salah Jadid
 * Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party

Internet Communities

 * r/SyrianCirclejerkWar
 * r/SyrianCivilWar