Ba'athism
（重定向自Baathism）
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![Michel Aflaq, the founder of Ba'athist thought. After the Ba'ath Party splintered, he became the chief ideologist for the Iraqi-dominated Ba'ath Party.](/Images/godic/202412/22/Maflaq4140.jpg")
![Salah Jadid (pictured) is commonly considered to be the first neo-Ba'athist leader](/Images/godic/202412/22/Salah_Jadid,_the_Baath_Party_strongman_during_the_years_1966-19704140.jpg")
![Iraqi and Syrian Ba'athist leaders (belonging to the Ba'ath Party headquartered in Baghdad) during the funeral of Michel Aflaq in 1989.](/Images/godic/202412/22/Duri,_Hussein,_Aysami_and_Ramadhan_during_Aflaq_funeral4140.jpg")
Ba'athism (Arabic:البعث al-ba‘ath meaning "renaissance"/"resurrection") is an Arab nationalist ideology that promotes the development and creation of a unified Arab state through the leadership of a vanguard party over a progressive revolutionary government. The ideology is officially based on the theories of the Syrian intellectuals Zaki al-Arsuzi (according to the pro-Syrian Ba'ath movement), Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar.