Another sign of dissent could be detected in the last days of "really existing socialism", when protesting crowds sang official songs, including national anthems, to remind the powers of their unfulfilled promises.
The first aim was, in the new spirit of socialism sweeping the land under Mitterrand, to demystify the impenetrable secrets of official France.
Carswell claimed Labour had abandoned socialism and was now a "corporatist" party.
In 2011, he described the carbon price as "socialism masquerading as environmentalism", and he repeated this nonsense at the Tasmanian Liberal Party's conference at the end of October, saying "Let's be under no illusions the carbon tax was socialism masquerading as environmentalism".
"There has been no real change in Poland since 1989, it's still socialism.
In an interesting essay on Crane's religious beliefs Gary Sloan quotes a comment the young writer made to an acquaintance: "I was a socialist for two weeks, but when a couple of socialists assured me I had no right to think differently from any other socialist and then quarrelled with each other about what socialism meant, I ran away".
This is not about socialism, it is about fairness".
In interviews, Miliband argued that his decision to intervene in the energy markets was a special case prompted by unique failures in the flawed structure of the energy industry, rejecting claims that he was marching the party back to an era of socialism.
It contains a bewildering number of intellectual currents – from the moderate "democratic socialism" faction to the more libertarian "emancipatory left" to Cuba Sí to the hardline Communist Platform; for some the prime goal is "resistance", for others it's "governing".
Increasingly, anyone nostalgic for the GDR – or even just anyone who felt that state socialism hadn't been all bad – found the PDS to be their political voice.
It renamed itself the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), salvaged many of its assets (in ways that critics have called criminal) and emerged soon enough as a kind of regional protest party for the discontents of unification.
