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Originally Posted by Itse
Baathism has /had a pretty complicated connection to Marxism and socialism, and it's probably as closely tied to fascism, despite the rhetorics.
While there's obviously a lot of variation, generally speaking the only parts of socialism Baathism commonly accepts are one-party rule (and typically dictatorship rule), national ownership of resources, planned economies and giving land to farmers.
It generally rejects key Marxist socialist concepts such as class-struggle and uniting workers across borders, replacing them with protectionism and pan-Arabic nationalism, which supports "ethnic unity", often leading to ethnic cleansings.
(Also, Iraq was the most significant Baathist nation, and Saddam was taken down by a US lead military aggression. Islamism only stepped in to fill the vacuum.)
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Showers are just more efficient, especially in arid regions.
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