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	Socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Socialists hold that capitalism is an illegitimate economic system, since it serves the interests of the wealthy and allegedly exploits an unlucky minority of the population.
		Democratic countries typically place legal limits on the centralization of capital through anti-trust laws and limits on monopolies, though the extent to which these laws are enforced has to do with the balance of power between the actually existing or emerging monopoly firms, as well as political ties between government and some corporations (crony capitalism).
		Socialists are also divided on which rights and liberties are desirable, such as the "bourgeois liberties" (such as those guaranteed by the U.S. First Amendment or the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialism (8390 words)

	Communist state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They resulted in the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic in 1918, the Bavarian Soviet Republic from November 1918 until May 3, 1919, the Slovak Soviet Republic in 1919, the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, and the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1920 to 1921.
		Most of the Communist states in the world were established in the aftermath of World War II in Eastern Europe, either in countries which were liberated from the Nazis by the Soviet Red Army, or in countries where Communist-led partisans succeeded in driving out the Nazis and taking power themselves.
		Later, the Vietnam War ended with the defeat of South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army and the establishment of a unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1975.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_state (4176 words)

	Socialist Countries - Frequently asked question: Which countries are socialist?
		A genuine socialist government would appeal to the workers and oppressed of the world to win support for a socialist transformation of society in their own countries, and its example would inspire the working class and oppressed all round the world.
		A socialist society, by contrast, would be driven by the need to provide a decent life for all humanity, whilst protecting the environment for future generations.
		But whilst the Socialist Party supports Cuba against the vindictive aggression of the United States, and we recognise the important advances the revolution brought to the poor and oppressed, it is still not a socialist country.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /socialistcountries.htm (2144 words)

	Socialist Realism
		The literature of socialist realism is developing today in close relation with the struggle for the construction of socialist society and for the triumph of the world proletarian revolution; it is in irreconcilable struggle with the apoliticism and moral and social degeneration which revisionist literature seeks to spread.
		Socialist realism is based on the Marxist-Leninist world outlook, which gives writers and artists the possibility of understanding in depth and clarity the laws of the development of society, of penetrating to the core of events and of people’s characters, which arms them with a correct, scientific political and ideological outlook.
		However the method of socialist realism is omnipotent, because it was born in a legitimate way, was forged on the terrain of the revolutionary struggle of the masses of the people led by Marxist-Leninist parties, was nourished on the most progressive ideals in the world, on shining communist ideals.
	revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv6n2/socialreal.htm (3863 words)

	Cuba's Health in Transition and the Central and Eastern European Countries Experience. Dr. Antonio Maria Gordon
		The country that seemed to have faired the worse was the Russian Federation where life expectancy at birth bottomed during the transition at the level expected for an underdeveloped country of Central Asia, 57 years of age for men.
		That is, it seemed important to socialist health leaders to break down barriers of authority and status among health care workers and in between themselves and their relationships with the people that is the patients and clients.
		Beyond socialist ideology, socialist health services should be looked at and assessed in the context of the transition away from totalitarian socialism from a general perspective of public health organization and the non-Communist paradigms of health care.
	www.finlay-online.com /finlayinstitute/healthintransition.htm (4686 words)

	CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Speech by Leonid Brezhnev
		However, none of their decisions should damage either socialism in their country or the fundamental interests of other socialist countries, and the whole working class movement, which is working for socialism.
		However, from a Marxist point of view, the norms of law, including the norms of mutual relations of the socialist countries, cannot be interpreted narrowly, formally, and in isolation from the general context of class struggle in the modern world.
		It has got to be emphasized that when a socialist country seems to adopt a "non-affiliated" stand, it retains its national independence, in effect, precisely because of the might of the socialist community, and above all the Soviet Union as a central force, which also includes the might of its armed forces.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/14/documents/doctrine (834 words)

	Options for socialist societies and east-west relations
		These countries are fully 'de-linked' in the sense that they have broad control of their external relations and subject them to the logic of their internal development, whereas the underdeveloped capitalist partners do the opposite: they 'adjust' their internal development to the constraints of accumulation on a world scale.
		The relative 'stagnation' of the socialist countries is seen to be one of the fundamental causes of the 'viability' of capitalism and that enhanced external economic relations could help the socialist countries to overcome this relative stagnation.
		The crisis in the countries in the East is one of the passage from extensive accumulation to intensive accumulation.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/uu32me/uu32me0n.htm (4519 words)

	Ch06
		It was therefore highly relevant to discuss, at the meeting of archivists of the countries of the socialist community, the problem of organizing the utilization of archive material for national economic purposes.
		For the archive institutions of the countries of the socialist community, the notion of utilization of material to serve national economic interests includes primarily full utilization of the information contained in the material for the purpose of tackling present-day economic development tasks.
		In all countries of the socialist community active recourse is had to archive material in connection with the restoration of historical and cultural monuments and the reconstruction and repair of residential and public buildings and urban communications.
	www.unesco.org /webworld/ramp/html/r8722e/r8722e06.htm (5218 words)

	SOCIALISTS QUESTION REPORT OF THEIR DECLINING IMPORT GROWTH.
		The socialist countries of Eastern Europe have challenged the vies that they are decelerating their imports of manufactures and semi-manufactures from the third world countries.
		The report had said that the share of third world manufactures exports to socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia had fallen from a 9.9 percent in 1970 to 6.7 percent in 1983, though this was attributed to the faster rate of growth of third world exports to OECD countries and other third world countries.
		This showed that the socialist countries had in fact continued to increase trade in manufactures with third world countries in the 1980's, and the growth rate of 12.9 percent was twice as high as the average of growth in third world exports to all destinations.
	www.sunsonline.org /trade/process/during/86/06060086.htm (1177 words)

	People's Weekly World - Why the shift to a socialist market economy?
		Among factors contributing to this crisis were the U.S. escalation of the arms race to strain the economies of the socialist countries, a U.S.-led embargo of technology transfer, and violations of democratic centralism in the ruling Communist parties.
		Consequently, the gap between the standard of living in the socialist countries (in spite of their initial gains) and the developed capitalist countries began to widen.
		The introduction of the socialist planned economy to utilize a nation’s resources in what appeared to be the most rational way was, in reality, premature and, despite its many powerfully positive accomplishments, must be viewed as a variant of utopian socialism.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/3740 (696 words)

	Poland: Behind the Crisis (1982) : U.S. Imperialism Economic Policy
		It is equally well known that the socialist countries, virtually without exception, have attempted to normalize relations with the imperialist powers and have sought out all avenues to develop trade, commerce, and general economic intercourse with a view towards strengthening socialist construction.
		And the countries are not at all friendly but as antagonistic as ever and only mean to use China as a wedge against other socialist countries and to bring it into the imperialist fold.
		Of all the socialist countries, it is the USSR and the German Democratic Republic which have advanced economically and industrially in a socialist direction.
	www.workers.org /marcy/poland/poland14.html (3748 words)

	Socialist Party Archive - World News: Socialism - The Alternative (Sept 02)
		This is an important part of the reason why there are not any socialist counties today, despite the fact that global capitalism is causing greater disparity of wealth and greater suffering now than perhaps at any time in history.
		Although capitalism and feudal landlordism were abolished in those countries, those 'Communist' regimes represented a grotesque caricature of the genuine ideas of socialism, and were a collection of ruthless dictatorships based on bureaucratically planned economies.
		The Socialist Party believes that none of these countries are or were socialist.
	www.socialistparty.net /pub/archive/world-socialistcountries.htm (1600 words)

	People's Weekly World - Once again on socialist market economies
		The subject of a socialist market economy is a contentious one, with Vietnam’s recent economic history bringing questions about it into sharp relief, as the response to the “People Before Profits” columns of July 12 and 19 illustrates.
		I made the point that the socialist countries found it necessary, as they developed their economies, for their products to compete on the world market.
		The escalation of the arms race by the United States was openly designed to force the socialist countries, the Soviet Union in particular, to maintain a level of military technology and production that burdened their economies severely.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/4276 (768 words)

	Center for Global Justice
		With the rapid development of economic globalization in the last decades of the 20th century, the socialist movement suffered the big the setback and socialist countries in Europe came to disappear.
		Unassailably, the disappearance of socialist countries in Europe is one of the important conditions and characteristic of the development of the economic globalization too.
		On the other hand, as the leading course of developed countries and capitalist economic relations, economic globalization, for the socialism, means a course in which there are pitfalls and the socialism may be evolved and swallowed.
	www.globaljusticecenter.org /papers/song.htm (1149 words)

	Communism and Fatherland
		The revolutionary transformations in the countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe turned these countries from bourgeois "father lands" into socialist fatherlands of the working masses whose objective interests are indivisibly linked with the realisation of the social ideals of their most progressive part, the working class.
		There is no doubt that in the community of socialist countries which came into being after the Second World War, the Soviet Union occupies the position of first among equals both by being the first country of victorious socialism and by its international role and significance as a big power.
		In determining mutual relations among the socialist countries, the writers of such articles do not take as a point of departure the unity of the socialist world which, by building a socialist order in different countries, should consolidate itself in all its parts, consolidate itself into a monolithic stronghold of peace and progress.
	www.marxists.org /subject/yugoslavia/ziherl/communism-fatherland/ch06.htm (617 words)

	LEGITIMATION AND CULTURALISM: TOWARDS POLICING CHANGES IN THE EUROPEAN `POST-SOCIALIST' COUNTRIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Crime became a volatile political issue in the `post socialist' countries, and many governments would seem to have been eager to show that they could curb and control this social phenomenon for the purpose of stability in the newly fledged democracies they were striving to construct.
		Partly because of these factors the governments of the former socialist countries have embarked on what is usually referred to as the `police reform'.
		The west European countries appeared to have higher crime rates than their eastern counterparts and the latter were told that this was the price they had to pay for freedom.
	www.ncjrs.gov /policing/leg219.htm (5303 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Soviet Statement: Friendship and Co-operation Between the Soviet Union and Other Socialist ...
		United by the common ideal of building a socialist society and the principles of proletarian internationalism, the countries of the great commonwealth of socialist nations can build their relations only on the principle of full equality, respect of territorial integrity, state independence and sovereignty, and noninterference in one another's domestic affairs.
		The Soviet Government is ready to discuss with the governments of other socialist states measures insuring the further development and strengthening of economic ties between socialist countries, in order to remove any possibilities of violating the principle of national sovereignty, mutual advantage, and equality in economic relations.
		With a view to insuring the mutual security of the socialist countries, the Soviet Government is ready to examine with other socialist countries that are parties to the Warsaw Treaty the question of Soviet troops stationed on the territory of these countries.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1956soviet-coop1.html (997 words)

	Workers World Nov. 6, 2003: Workers World on the socialist countries
		We broadly define as socialist those countries where the old state of the exploiting classes was smashed and the new regimes expropriated the means of production and established some form of planned economy.
		On the one hand, it was a drag on the struggling new socialist system, but on the other it organized the economy at a time of many remarkable gains for the workers and peasants.
		Each socialist revolution has been shaped--and, in that sense, limited--by the material and social conditions it has inherited from the past and by whether it has any allies to turn to or is isolated in a sea of hostile capitalist states.
	www.workers.org /ww/2003/letter1106.php (1252 words)

	Michel Pablo: Yugoslavia and Permanent Revolution (1950)
		In the entire first section of his study, Djilas attempts to catalogue Lenin’s views on what the relations between countries and particularly between “socialist” countries should be, and by this method highlights the striking contrast between Leninist doctrine on this question and the present methods of Moscow and the Cominform.
		This conception, which counterposes the democratic stage to the socialist stage is in reality that of reformism and of the vulgar “Marxism” of the Mensheviks, etc. This idea was revived by Stalin and Bukharin after Lenin’s death and applied with disastrous results in China (1925-27) and then in Spain.
		The more developed socialist countries should give real economic assistance to the less developed ones which is impossible if they trade and grant loans according to capitalist rules of profit.
	www.marxists.org /archive/pablo/1950/01/yugoslavia.htm (2911 words)

	AskMe: Which socialist countries are transitioning to capitalism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Almost all countries which were socialist in the 1980s are currently making the transition to free enterprise.
		East Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary are by far the most successful of the former socialist bloc.
		The other former Socialist countries of Eastern Europe are not doing as well economically, but are making the transition slowly.
	www.issues2000.org /askme/transition.htm (453 words)

	Socialist Countries
		Countries with the Highest Incidence of Lung Cancer
		Countries with the Highest Incidence of Breast Cancer
		Countries to have won the most Beauty Pageants
	www.aneki.com /socialist.html (24 words)

	Socialist Viewpoint
		The reintroduction of capitalism in the post-capitalist countries, in the sense given by the capitalist mass media—i.e., the raising of its productive forces to the level that exists in the industrially developed countries of the world—can be safely excluded as a possibility for any of the former Soviet bloc countries.
		All the world’s countries that in one way or another are victims of capitalist globalization will once again see the power of a fighting working class challenging their own capitalists in the American colossus and elsewhere in the advanced industrial countries.
		That is to say, even in the most backward countries of the world, imperialist capitalism has introduced the most advanced forms of capitalist super-exploitation, but at the same time has condemned the great majority of its peoples to living conditions worse than in the time before capitalism arose on the scene of world history.
	www.socialistviewpoint.org /sept_01/sept_01_5.html (4105 words)

	5. THE SO-CALLED ‘SOCIALIST’ COUNTRIES \| International Communist Current
		The Stalinist theory of ‘socialism’ in one country, the whole lie of the ‘socialist’ or ‘communist’ countries, or of countries ‘on the road’ to socialism, all have their origins in this mystification.
		They are countries, where, under the weight of one of the greatest lies in history, the dictatorship of capital rules in its most decadent form.
		The collapse of the eastern bloc and of the Stalinist regimes has swept away this mystification of the so-called 'socialist' countries which for more than half a century was the spearhead of the most terrible counter-revolution in history.
	en.internationalism.org /node/610 (1406 words)

	Brian Becker, Socialist breakup in Eastern Europe devastates workers
		Before the counter-revolutionary overthrow of the socialist governments from 1989 to 1991, the countries associated with the USSR and the socialist bloc in Eastern Europe were largely protected from the ravages of world capitalism.
		The flow of wealth from the people of the world to a handful of imperialist countries is rapidly increasing as a result of globalization.
		In these countries a small handful of the population controls and benefits from the lion's share of the wealth.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/63/108.html (1560 words)

	Socialist Party
		Lincoln Socialist Party held a public meeting on 16 August to build a coalition against the rise of the BNP and far right in our area.
		We campaign for a socialist society free from the horrors of war and poverty.
		Shows how socialists campaign for a better world today, and explains a new, socialist world is possible.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk (1447 words)

	Capitalist raptors tear former Socialist countries apart
		The country is soon to be held in a vice between US corporate privatisation and control, and the IMF’s stringent loan conditions.
		In July 13 countries — the largest combination yet — of central Europe, the Caucasus and central Asia met to begin co-ordination of oil and gas supplies to Europe.
		But we can also perhaps see that China’s role in the world today, as it develops economic links, and as the socialist countries continue to defend and advance their interests, is a force for harnessing a restructured global economic democracy.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/1999111002.php (2761 words)

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