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To: optimistically_conservative

Baathism, like most socialist ideologies, is susceptible to power being usurped by a strongman or oligarchy.

7 posted on 08/09/2003 1:43:41 AM PDT by Post Toasties

To: Post Toasties

Baathism, like most socialist ideologies, is susceptible to power being usurped by a strongman or oligarchy.

I think it demands a strongman/oligarchy. It is not supposed to exist in a democratic form.

12 posted on 08/09/2003 2:21:25 AM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)

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