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svieira

> Socialism brought a lot of good things all over Europe in the 1900s

Just ask Poland!

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You should see what the first large joint stock company, The East India Company, brought the nations it operated in.

I forgot to mention that 280 iq individuals who think socialism = communism = USSR = gulags can refrain from commenting

No wonder we can't have any serious discussions on these topics...

My IQ is not 300, but it's sufficient to understand reality:

- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: operated under the Communist Party's centralized control, with state ownership of production, suppression of dissent, and looked more like communist authoritarianism than democratic socialism.

- CCP, Cuba, North Korea: they call themselves socialists while being led by communist parties.

- Democratic socialism like Sweden, Norway, Denmark: very different from the above.

Well, socialism also includes the National Socialists of various nations ... perhaps we should clarify our terms rather than using an ambiguous word?

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