Saadehism: Difference between revisions

|dislikes = *[[File:ZioSaadeh.png]] [[ZionismIrredentism|Antoun]]<br> [[File:Welfare Sep.pngChauvinism|Saadeh]] [[Separatism]](1904-1949)

'''Saadehism''', also referred to as '''Pan-Syrianism''' or '''Pan-Syrian Nationalism''', is the ideology of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), which aims to unite the region of the Levant and Mesopotamia to create a [[File: Unitary.png]] [[Centralism|unitary and centralized]], [[File: socnat.png]] [[Welfare Chauvinism|Social Nationalist]] state within the geographical boundaries of the Fertile Crescent also referred to as [https://hg1.funnyjunk.com/pictures/Greater+syria+made+by+the+syrian+national+socialist+party_72aadb_7858928.jpg Greater Syria]. Saadeh is [[File:Anticommunism.png]] anti-Communist and [[File:Anticap.png]] anti-Capitalist, advocating for an economic third position (aftermentioned social nationalist economics). He is very philosophical and culturally right-wing, placing a large emphasis on hierarchy, authority and order. Historically it has been a revolutionary ideology opposing European colonialism and Zionism, going as far as using suicide bombers against Israeli military targets. Saadeh believes in equality and secularism and has no issue utilising women in military roles where half of their suicide bombers were women including the first female suicide bomber in the world; Sana Mehaidili. Economically, Saadeh believes that an economy based on production rather than services is more effective and calls for [[File:Farm.png]] [[Agrarianism|agrarian]] reform, and expansion of [[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism|Industry]]. Generally, he supports private property, although he advocates for the nationalization of necessities. He is also against all forms of division within the nation as they divide the state. Thus, Saadeh believes in class, ethnic, religious, etc collaboration.

Adib Shishakli was one of the first members of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, in which some ideals were incorporated into his government, such as Nationalism, Limited Socialism, and the opposition and struggle against Israel. Many of Shishaklier's ideals were publicized in newspapers, some other ideals were opposition against the Baath party and Nasserism (relatively anti-communist), pan-Arabism, and militarism, in addition to having mixed relations with the West and considered himself "an Arab Caesar".

DuriingDuring the civil war, the SSNP gained much support thanks to their newly foundfounded alliance with Baath. Fielding around 12000 fighters and winning 7 seats in the Syrian parliament in 2016. The SSNP is the second largest party Syria only behind the ruling Ba’ath party of Al Assad.

Syrian social nationalism pertains to the idea of environmental determinism where itwhich posited a common Syrian history and nationality, grouping all the different religious sects and variations in the area, as well as the region's mixture of different peoples due to geography. Thus, while not ''per se'' anti-Arab it opposed the Arab nationalist ideology, preferring an all-encompassing Syrian nationality and natural borders of Syria.

Syrian nationalism advocates for a "Greater Syria", based on ancient concepts of the boundaries of the region; the Zagros mountains and Persian gulfGulf in the east, to the Red and Mediterranean Seas in the west, also including Cyprus, and from the Arabian desert in the south until the Taurus mountains in the north.

It supports the rise in romantic nationalism, idealising the coming of a [[File:Histval.png] ]National Revival (Renaissance) to the Levant and Mesopotamia, that would shake off the Ottoman and Arab past and propel back what many started to see again as the cradle of civilization into the modern world's front stage. This sidelines the different identities of these ancient civilisations such as the distinct Assyrian, Moabite, Ugarite and the numerous Phoenician identities to name a few. In a quite ironically very similar way to how some Lebanese Phoenicianists revise history and claim that Phoenicians had a united identity. That is false, as Phoenicians definedidentified with their respective cities first, and as Bn Canaan, sons of Canaan or Canaanites, second.

# ''The Syrian homeland is that geographic environment in which the Syrian nation evolved. It has distinct natural boundaries and extends from the Taurus range in the northwest and the Zagros mountains in the northeast to the Suez canalCanal and the Red Sea in the south and includes the Sinai peninsula and the gulfGulf of Aqaba, and from the Syrian seaSea in the west, including the island of Cyprus, to the arch of the Arabian desert and the Persian gulf in the east. (This region is also known as the Syrian Fertile Crescent).''

# ''The abolition of feudalism, the organization of national economy on the basis of production and the protection of the rights of labourlabor and the interests of the nation and the state.''

# ''Formation of strong [[File: Mil.png]] armed forces which will be effective in determining the destiny of the country and the nation.''

Natural Syria does not have ethnic homogeneity, rather it is a mix of Syriacs, Arabs, Kurds, etc. Syrians are the ones who belong to the Syrian homeland either by birth or by [[File:constructivist.png]] ”participating in the unity of life over a sufficient period of time” to affiliate in the society’s fabric. Not a single non-Syrian person or organization has the right to speak in the name of Syrian interests in internal and external issues, and only Syrians may represent their cause and decide the fate of their interests and lives.

Saadeh's design is based on a combination of the Islamic crescent and the Christian cross creating a hurricane called the Zawba'a. The Zawba'a has also been found on Neolithic Mesopotamian art. Each arm of the Zawba'a represents a principle. They are: Freedom, Duty, Discipline, and Strength.

*[[File:Habash.png]] [[National Communism|Habashism]] - You also will fight against Israel, but why do you want to "free" Palestine, rather than absorbingabsorb it into greater Syria? And also, communism is cringe.

* [[File:Ottoman.png]] [[Neo-Ottomanism]] - You are just as bad as the Zionists and Europeans! We will never be Turkishpart of the Ottoman Empire ever again!

* [[File: Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - Individual Capitalists are the greatest danger to the Syrian people’s labor rights of labour.