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International socialism wrote:

I chose other. I mostly lean towards a reformed Marxist-Leninist system, whose focus is on the country and its people, as oppose to feeding and spending money on a remote country far away. Free market should be allowed to thrive, but the state must keep big businesses out of politics, at all costs. Public and private sectors mustn't replace each other, but rather serve as alternatives to those who seek them out. Military is important, as an asset to protect sovereignty from foreign states and extremists, trying to infiltrate borders. I could talk about it all day, but that just what I see as a rational approach to communism. Can't wait to hear other people's views on what they think an efficient system looks like.

I like this idea, personally, and although the DRUA’s (my nation) choice in the poll was “Communism”, the ideology of the State and the ruling party (the Arab Communist People’s Party) is called Qasabism, after Uthman al-Qasab, the founder of the country and the man who developed a fusion of Arab socialism and Marxism-Leninism to best pursue the interests of the masses of Umat Aleummalians. Qasabism basically stresses the importance of revolutionary nationalism for oppressed peoples, believes in mostly state ownership or worker’s cooperatives/peasant collectives running the economy while also allowing some private property for small shops, small farms and small family businesses, a unity of all Arab people into a socialist federation, and strong anti-imperialism and alliances with anti-Western, progressive countries. Freedom for Palestine is very important for the DRUA as well.