I have noticed that multiple non-socialist countries reference socialism in their constitution including Portugal, India and Sri Lanka. Why is this?

  • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Propably because a sufficiently large power bloc within these countries was pushing for socialism at the time of creation of their constitutions. Portugal, for example, was prevented from declaring a Peoples Republic by NATO outright sending warships to the capital during their revolution.

    Reactionaries then took over in these states