Unity, Freedom, Socialism

Struggle necessarily involves sacrifice, /Aflaq/ emphasized, but amidst fiery conflict and bloodshed, each person "is forced to return to himself, to sink into his depths, to discover himself anew after experience and pain. At that point the true unity will be realized, and this is a new kind of unity different from political unity; it creates the unity of spirit among the individuals of [all] nation[s]."  Michel Aflaq, founder of Baath Party