The list includes countries that assert in their constitutions that they are based on socialism, regardless of their economic or political system. It does not list countries that do not have constitutional references to socialism as socialist states. Such states are not considered to be communist or socialist states because they do not provide a constitutional role for their ruling socialistcommunist parties.
About List of socialist states in brief
Several past and present states have declared themselves socialist states or in the process of building socialism. Modern uses of the term socialism are wide in meaning and interpretation. As a sovereign state is a different entity from the political party that rules that state at any given time, a country may be ruled by a socialist party without the country itself claiming to be socialist or the socialist party being written into the constitution. The list includes countries that assert in their constitutions that they are based on socialism, regardless of their economic or political system.
It does not list countries that do not have constitutional references to socialism as socialist states. Such states are not considered to be communist or socialist states because the countries themselves do not provide a constitutional role for their ruling socialistcommunist parties or deemed socialism a state ideology. This does not include socialist parties following social democracy which governed most of the Western world as part of the mainstream centre-left and refers to democratic socialist parties positioned to their left.
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