Socialism in the Middle East

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After our recent discussion of whether the Nazis were socialists or not, I recalled a couple more examples of countries that follow a brand of national socialism: Iraq and Syria. They are ruled by divergent branches of the Ba'ath Party, a Pan-Arab, socialist movement. Here's more on the subject from the Columbia Encyclopedia.

Ba’ath party

(bä´äth) (KEY) , Arab political party, in Syria and in Iraq. Its main ideological objectives are secularism, socialism, and pan-Arab unionism. Founded in Damascus in 1941 and reformed, with the name Ba’ath, in the early 1950s, it rapidly achieved political power in Syria.

The link above will take you to the complete article, which is fairly short if you would like to read it.