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An economic system advocating democratic control of the means of production through worker, common and/or state ownership. There is no one form of socialism; some systems involve states whilst others are stateless, some employ markets whilst others utilise central or distributed planning.
 
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Text by Ryan B.
Initially published on 31 December 2001.

 
 
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