Now the party is trumpeting a new slogan: "Socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics".
"Look at the situation in Spain, after seven years of Socialist rule".
Syria came under the secular, socialist rule of the Baath Party in 1963.
The revolutionary Commune had briefly introduced socialist rule to Paris before being violently suppressed.
But ensure that Mr Zapatero denounces the corruption that brought 13½ years of Socialist rule to a messy end.
Mr. Cotterill's Laos is populated by bureaucrats, deflated revolutionaries and covert royalists who secretly lament socialist rule.
After two decades of Socialist rule, Mr. Karamanlis was elected in 2004 promising to restore faith in government.
Kenneth Kaunda, a hero of the liberation struggle, was Zambia's first president, but his single-party, socialist rule was an economic failure.
Eight months later, Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries marched into this unapologetic icon of capitalism to begin their socialist rule of Cuba.
That's why Karl Marx justified British imperialism in India: sure, it would be exploitative and miserable for Indian workers, but the foundations would be laid for socialist rule.
