@Aemon Ba'athism is borderline nazbol it's not national socialist. I don't think a Lebanese Christian (a minority) would advocate a political idea that would oppress him.

Calling Ba'athism 'national socialist' is absolutely disgusting and wrong

Please don't

I meant it's both nationalist and socialist not nazi

Oh. Apologies.

The idea of sullying Pan-Arab nationalism with nazism gets to me.

Ba’athism is Islamic Socialism

Mixed with Pan-Arab Nationalism

Formed in opposition to the Ottomans and Western Imperialist powers

It's secular

@Aemon it still practices Islamic economics

Even though it is secular

Oh you meant like culturally Islamic

Ba'athism was made by a Christian. It's secular, although it views Islam as a great Arab cultural achievement in which all Arabs can take pride in

Ba'athism is basically nazbol

@Huey Long what else can they?

Arabs made massive achievements in science and such right after the Christionization of Europe

@Aemon their Golden Age was temporary

So is the Golden Age of almost everything

What are you trying to say?

Yes but they were less effective with theirs compared to other regions golden ages

More effective than plenty of others. And what does it matter? It doesn't make Arabs inferior, lol

I didn’t say that

Everyone should be communist anyway

Pfft, communist parties are either liberal sell-outs or non-entities

Yes currently

@Huey Long ehh, the CPRF aren't liberals or sellouts

They're liberal sell outs. Their hardline communist wing is dying of old age and being replaced by progressive liberals that go communist because every other liberal party sucks balls. This is Russia fortunately, we have a grip on liberalism.

Zuganov and Grudinin aren't liberals.

The True Golden Age will come when everyone realizes communism is the only way

The party-line of the CPRF is very pro-Stalin

Zyuganov and Grudinin are a dying breed. They're too conservative for the youth.

@Huey Long there still are plenty of young Russians who rate Stalin highly.

Stalin was voted the best Russian of all time by the Russian people. Yes, the youth are slightly more liberal than the elderly but still.

Stalin is adored by almost everyone, leftist or not. Only people who remember his religious persecution actively hate him.

@Huey Long there wasn't really any huge scale religious persecution though.

Under Lenin or Stalin

There was, and the Orthodox Church remembers it keenly.

It was only the churches and priests who actively criticised the government that were arrested or demolished.

Of course, the oligarchs hate Stalin and that is probably the main group and since they control almost everything they can brainwash people into thinking Stalin was bad.

Ehhh... no-o-o-o. The Oligarchs are rich, sure, and influential, but Putin has strong-armed most into staying in line.