Meanwhile, its few thousand remaining guerrillas hide in the hinterlands and, in effect, do nothing to further the creation of a democratic socialist state fit for workers and peasants.

ECONOMIST: The Philippines

But the prudent Mr Jospin, who sounds increasingly more social-democratic than socialist, does not mean to be rushed.

ECONOMIST: France

And so tribal, feudal, democratic, socialist, communist and other systems were devised.

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