That doesn't mean it's inherently Islamic or Islamist.
If you look at the 'real world' you will see that the Assad's had little choice but to embrace the Islamic contradiction inherent in Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party ideology
Under the leadership of Salah Jadid (1966–70), the neo-Ba’aths’ were enthusiastically atheistic, angering the Sunni majority.
Dr. Liad Porat, The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the Asad Regime wrote:With regard to uprooting religion from politics, the Syrian regime demonstrated a tenacity almost unparalleled in the Arabic world.
At the forefront of the popular Sunni-urban struggle against the atheistic regime were the Islamic circles, an inseparable part of the dominant social forces that made up the traditional Sunni-urban political power structure, headed by the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan).
ibid wrote:Violent clashes between the Ikhwan and the regime ensued a short time after the Ba’th came to power. In April 1964, violence erupted in Hamah, led by Marwan Hadid, which ended in the demolition of its central mosque and the death of dozens of activists. By January 1965, the events in Hamah had ignited violence in Damascus as well. Subsequently, in April 1967 riots erupted among the Sunni population all over Syria, but the regime managed to suppress the violence...
In 1970, in an effort to stem the violence, Hafez al-Assad, ever the pragmatist, President of Syria from 1971 to 2000, cooled the rhetoric, scaled down the anti-Islamic policies, and began to stress Syria's adherence to Islam.
The policy worked after a fashion (The rebels never garnered the mass support necessary to topple the regime).
Twelve years later, the Syrian Brotherhood were a spent force.
But, as you have no interest in the material world (most probably because you wish to peddle your vision of Syria as the Singapore of the ME), we discuss ideology.
Well nothing in Baathism says capitalism is bad or is against Baathism or anything.
Michel Aflaq, a socialist, as
Amid (leader) was responsible for ideological affairs in the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
"All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" Orwell
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