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There's no need to be pedantic about definitions. France had a socialist government as recently as 2014: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/25/frances-soci...

There are other countries in Europe that have or have had (and moved on from) socialist governments in recent history.

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Just because the party in power calls itself "socialists" doesn't make them socialists. Their current plans to gut worker's rights are antithetical to socialism.

France is not socialist since 1983.

I do think it's worth being pedantic when using loaded words like "socialism".

It just seems like a bit of a misdirect when the response to "what are you asking" goes towards trying to define socialism instead of answering the question. It's akin to saying "I don't agree that this thing is green" and when asked why you don't agree, the response is "define green" when talking about a teal object.

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