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by actionfromafar 1216 days ago
(Side-note: socialism is one of these overloaded terms. In the US for instance, socialism and communism seem to be synonyms.)
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...but it also doesn't help to treat socialism and social-market-economy as synonyms. E.g. most Northern/Western European countries are not actually 'socialist', even though they are much more social than the "real socialist" countries of the Eastern Bloc.

(and yes, the term "Real Socialism" was actually a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_socialism