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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. 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.

'''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 has caused widespread shortages of basic goods and services.

==Controversy==

==Controversy==