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Well, North Korea (and many other dictatorships) are technically "democratic republics"... Doesn't mean that they are.
by epsylon 13y ago
Well, North Korea (and many other dictatorships) are technically "democratic republics"... Doesn't mean that they are.
- oblio 13y agoTrue, and so were all the socialist regimes I mentioned. But after tens of years of propaganda by the communists, the name tends to stick. After the fall of communism, it sticks in a bad way: socialism = communism. I think that the best people to ask are those that lived under "socialist" regimes (I'm one of them). If I ask almost anybody I know that lived under a socialist regime, they'll probably say the same. Maybe theoretically socialism is a different thing, but practically it really isn't for a lot of people.