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		mseebach on July 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: White Coke No, it's not socialist, because the socialist nation is a utopia, and thus practically unreachable. The USSR (and DDR, Cuba, Zimbabwe, pre-Deng China and so on), however, is what you get when you make an attempt at reaching it.

steveklabnik on July 17, 2013 [–]

There are two major branches of socialism: utopian and scientific, actually.

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