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well Latin populations have in large part adopted socialism as a response to the "Western" colonialism they fought

obviously modern Spain is pretty socialist, too, but it's all contextual. modern, Spanish socialism has little relation to the genesis or promulgation of socialist beliefs in the Latin world.

Define socialist.

EDIT: This probably sounds like a shitpost that will earn a dictionary link, but I'm genuinely confused at where you're getting literally anything you said here. Latin America didn't say "frick you dad" and turn socialist in the 19th century. If their more left-wing bent is a reaction to anything it's to the juntas we installed during the 20th century.

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Posted by Tiguar

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Posted on 4/17/17 at 3:23 pm to Iosh

Exactly my point

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Posted by crazy4lsu

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Posted on 4/17/17 at 3:24 pm to Iosh

The modern socialism of Latin America is based on Marxist revisionism, isn't it? The turn was relatively late.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 4/17/17 at 3:32 pm to Iosh

my delay was due to writing checks and getting my cover letters and vouchers in order to mail to the IRS

as Latins have always described the values to me, it involves revolutionary rhetoric. if that's a revolution from those who originally led the revolution against Spain, then fine, that comment was wrong. the main point was that the motherland and Latin countries reached their socialist statuses completely separately

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