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Re:Brutalism is Back by faragon on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @07:25AM (#12691919)
In "western Europe" the negative word for "socialist" is "communist", as most western-European "socialism" became social-democracy (i.e. "capitalist liberal-progressist" without Marxist commitment at all) after WWII.
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Re:Brutalism is Back by allendoerfer on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:24PM (#12694823)
In Germany Honecker invented the term "real existierender Sozialismus" [0] (actually existing socialism) and except in some extremist circles definitely has a negative meaning today. In my head it is stored next to sentences like "Niemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu errichten." ("Nobody has the intention of building a wall").

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_socialism

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