Maybe it's not meant as "socialist" as a category so much as "socialist" as an adjective applied to policies not unlike what you find here in Canada--like the policies supported and put forth by, say, the NDP (a minority democratic socialist party within a parliamentary system).
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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