In December, Morales' Movement to Socialism party won almost 54 percent of the popular vote.
That is almost the same as the 50% royalty demanded by Evo Morales, who leads a coca-growers' union and the radical Movement to Socialism party, the second biggest in Bolivia's Congress.
"We should be careful in whose hands civil society ends up - eastern Europeans have exchanged the tyrannies of socialism and party apparatuses for the tyrannies of capitalism, political elites, corporate bureaucracies and ethnic majorities determined to stamp out any kind of plural life, " she says.
That view may derive from a genuine belief in socialism and the party's potential for good.
"We don't waste our time with what is capitalism or what is socialism, " one party adviser told me.
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Journalists found food stockpiled at the homes of several government officials and leaders of Mr Morales's Movement to Socialism (MAS) party.
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As part of the process to change the constitution, a recall referendum was approved on December 2007, by the Chamber of Deputies, where the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party has a majority.
But that might very well strengthen the political fringes, including the Party of Democratic Socialism.
Herbert Morrison the grandfather of Peter Mandelson, Mr Blair's cabinet colleague once wickedly defined socialism as what the Labour Party did.
Anti-Socialism Groups were created combining party, prosecutorial, and security personnel.
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His Social Democrats and their most likely partners, the Greens, would have to win a Bundestag majority against the three parties of Helmut Kohl's present centre-right coalition plus the Party of Democratic Socialism.
Peter's other role was the one I mentioned in passing at the beginning, of trying to push the Labour Party away from democratic socialism towards the centre ground.
Political analyst Maria Teresa Zegada told El Pais newspaper that "it is clear that the will of the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism, Bolivia's governing party) is to remain in power and opt for the re-election of Evo Morales".
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In his L.A. Times column, Jonah Goldberg wrote that Thatcher destroyed socialism rather than liberalism -- forcing Labour's Tony Blair to "to repudiate the party's century-long support for doctrinaire socialism and embrace the market" and U.S. Democrat Bill Clinton to follow suit.
His party, the Movement to Socialism, also looks set to gain control of Congress when official results are eventually declared.
When the assembly was convened on Saturday, Morales' party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) decided to change the rules and say that the approval of a constitutional text does not require two thirds of the total members but two thirds of the total members present.
Its ruling Baath party preached a doctrine that combined socialism with Arab nationalism.
Even though most analysts feared that President Lula from the Workers' Party would lead his country towards socialism, the Brazilian leader has been able to moderate his positions, adopting market friendly economic policies.
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Much of the party is still nostalgic for the Nehruvian socialism that for so long impeded India's growth.
While Mr. Wu kept his party bosses happy by swearing allegiance to socialism, he turned rice and pig farmers into millionaires.
Those marks represented Hussein's Baathist Party slogan of unity, freedom and socialism.
Businessmen, used to the ruling Baath Party's penchant for spottily applied socialism, dashed with cronyism, welcomed the loosening of the state's clammy grip.
For most of its independent history, India has been run by the Congress Party, which did not cast aside socialism until the 1990s, ten years after the start of China's reforms.
An economy of scarcity, the Iron Curtain, informants and party big-wigs -- the dark side of real socialism are just stories for her.
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In a country that makes sharp distinctions between Socialism and Communism, he truly has little in common with his newfound party save the desire to rule.
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Surry County is as deep red as anywhere in the country: last year, after an acrimonious fight on the Mount Airy town council, a recycling initiative barely survived opposition by Tea Party supporters, some of whom considered it a step toward socialism.
What has been a surprise is that it has lasted over the past 60 years and how even the Labour Party, whenever it came to power, maintained the relationship despite its rather militant socialism and fundamental dislike of American capitalism and culture.
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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