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Fascinating stuff. I tend to define the term "Socialist Republican" in an Irish context when I use it, which properly befuddles most people. Language and words are difficult and slippery. One problem of the left is that we tend to use marxist terminology as a tribal language - and sometimes in a way that is opposite to how most people use the same words. "Democratic dictatorship of the proletariat", for instance. Only makes sense if you have already defined democracy as most people know it as the democratic dictatorship of the burgeoisie, and a bit iffy even then.