[lepton]

Ah, the Nazi Rule of Debate. The first one to mention Nazis in arguing his side automatically loses.

While I agree with the rule generally, what about discussions of the Ba'ath Socialist Party (An outgrowth of the Nazi Party formed in Damascus in 1941)?

[Archimedes2000]

Re; Ba'ath Socialist Party.

Excellent! I didn't know many other people knew of this bit of history.

Saddaam Hussein's Ba'ath Socialist Party was founded on traditional socialist principles, including the socialist sharing of oil revenue. Like Hitler's Socialist Germany, not everything was traditional "Marxist" doctrine, but a form of socialism was pervasive in both National Socialist Germany and socialist Iraq, certainly.