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==Theory and horror==
 
==Theory and horror==
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[[Image:HammerAndSickle.png|thumb|right|200px|The Hammer and Sickle is an offensive symbol of oppression in much of the world in the same way the [[Swastika]] is. It is the international symbol of communism.]]   
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[[Image:HammerAndSickle.png|thumb|right|200px|The Hammer and Sickle stand for the uprising of the peasans (thus the Sickle) and the workers (thus the Hammer). It has become a symbol of oppression in much of the world in the same way the [[Swastika]] did. It is the international symbol of communism.]]   
 
It is based upon a [[socialist]] economy in which the public, whether the state or other group, owns the "[[means of production]]" and in which the wealth of the nation is rationed among the Party's beneficiaries. Yet party members (there is only one Party) have special stores in which ordinary people are barred, stores which are immune to the perennial shortages which the lower class must endure (see [[queuing]]).  
 
It is based upon a [[socialist]] economy in which the public, whether the state or other group, owns the "[[means of production]]" and in which the wealth of the nation is rationed among the Party's beneficiaries. Yet party members (there is only one Party) have special stores in which ordinary people are barred, stores which are immune to the perennial shortages which the lower class must endure (see [[queuing]]).