In most of these campaigns the dissenters have argued that the American scientific establishment is tainted with an anti-corporate liberalism and is trying to impose socialism by the back door.

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We've moved back towards what the democratic socialism of Gaitskell of Wilson, of John Smith, of the people who wanted to reform the Labour Party but wanted to keep it socialist.

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Were the dreams of your father about going back to Kenya and moving the political atmosphere from Socialism to Communism?

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Lasso, meanwhile, promised to be friendlier to foreign investment, lower taxes on job-creating companies and roll back elements of what Correa calls his "21st century socialism, " such as a 5 percent tax on capital removed from Ecuador.

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The left just won its way back into power in Norway, where the future of so called market socialism was in play.

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