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The term socialist state (or socialist republic, or workers' state) can carry one of several different (but related) meanings:

Strictly speaking, any real or hypothetical state organized along the principles of socialism may be called a socialist state. The term socialist republic is used by those socialists who wish to emphasize that they favour a republican form of government. Furthermore, since socialism purports to represent the interests of the working class, many socialists refer to a state organized according to their principles as a workers' state.
According to Marxism, socialism is a stage of social and economic development that will replace capitalism, and will in turn be replaced by communism. Thus, in Marxist terms, a socialist state is a state that has abolished capitalism and is moving towards communism.
Several past and present states have claimed to follow some form of Marxist ideology, usually Marxism-Leninism. They referred to themselves as socialist states and since 1970s as states of real socialism. The first example was the Soviet Union, which was proclaimed a "socialist state" in its 1936 Constitution and a subsequent 1977 one. Another well-known example is the People's Republic of China, which is a "socialist state" according to its 1982 Constitution of the People's Republic of China. In the West, such states are commonly known as "communist states" (though they do not use this term to refer to themselves). A socialist state may be a country that uses the term "socialist" or "socialist republic" in its official name, constitution or the name or constitution of the ruling party, regardless of the actual political and economic system it has in practice. Examples include the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
Because there are several different branches of socialism, a country's claim to the label of "socialist state" or "socialist republic" is almost always disputed by some branch. Indeed, there are many socialists who strongly oppose certain self-proclaimed socialist republics. Trotskyists, for instance, are particularly known for their opposition to Communist states.

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National histories	Socialism in the Netherlands, History of socialism in Great Britain, History of the Left in France, Socialism in the United States
National/Regional variants	African socialism, Arab socialism, Labor Zionism, Melanesian socialism, Socialism with Chinese characteristics
Socialist states	Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Socialist People's Republic of Albania, Azerbaijan People's Government, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, People's Republic of China, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic, German Democratic Republic, Commune of the Working People of Estonia, People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Far Eastern Republic, Finnish Democratic Republic, Galician Soviet Socialist Republic, Hungarian Soviet Republic, Cambodia under Pol Pot (1975-1979), Democratic Kampuchea, Cambodia Under Vietnamese Occupation (1979-1989), Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic, Mongolian People's Republic, Soviet Republic of Naissaar, People's Republic of Poland, Communist Romania, Slovak Soviet Republic, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Tuvinian People's Republic, Republic of Užice, North Vietnam, Republic of South Vietnam, South Yemen

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