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[[Image:Backrdv12n2.jpg|right|400px|thumb|The caption reads, "Long live the great undefeatable flag of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin!"]]

[[Image:Backrdv12n2.jpg|right|400px|thumb|The caption reads, "Long live the great undefeatable flag of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin!"]]

'''Socialism''' uses government power to redistribute wealth. Conservatives have long noted that this acts as a drag on the economy at best. In democratic countries of the industrialized west, some socialist socialist ideas have been put into practice with varying degrees of success, but in totalitarian countries such as [[USSR]], [[China]], [[Cuba]], [[North Korea]], etc., it causes widespread shortages of basic goods and services.

'''Socialism''' uses government power to redistribute wealth. Although this acts as a drag on the economy, in democratic countries of the industrialized west, some socialist socialist ideas have been put into practice with varying degrees of success. In totalitarian countries such as [[USSR]], [[China]], [[Cuba]], [[North Korea]], etc., it causes widespread shortages of basic goods and services.

==Controversy==

==Controversy==