Types of socialism de Saint-Simon's utopic/aristocratic socialism heritage, prioritizing social justice, a central government with direct democracy without parliament. The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (also known as the Ba'ath Party; ) is a secularist Pan-Arabist political party that synthesizes Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. It opposes Western imperialism and calls for the ethnic "awakening" or "resurrection" of the Arab people into a single united state. "Ba'ath", also spelled as "Ba'th" or "Baath", means resurrection or renaissance. The party's motto, "Unity, Liberty, Socialism" ("wahda, hurriya, ishtirakiya"), was inspired by the French Jacobin political doctrine linking national unity and social equity. In the slogan, "unity"
Arab socialism the other hand, the Arabist Bernard Lewis has stated: "Nobody seems to have a good word to say for Arab socialism. Commercial, professional, and middle class elements bring against it the usual complaints which are brought against socialism in Western countries. Left-wingers dismiss Arab socialism with contempt as a half-hearted and inefficient compromise which has the merits neither of socialism nor of capitalism." Arab socialism Arab socialism () is a political ideology based on an amalgamation of Pan-Arabism and socialism. Arab socialism is distinct from the much broader tradition of socialist thought in the Arab world, which predates Arab socialism