Chris Doss wrote:
> I hate the word too, but do you have a suggestion
for a > better one?
Transitional societies in which the operation of the law of value was temporarily suppressed, but which displayed a hypertrophy of the state and bureaucratic spheres, and which eventually succumbed to counter-revolution under pressure of internal contradictions and external imperialist pressure.
If that is too long for you, there is always the SED's characterization of the GDR:
The first Anti-Fascist state on German soil.
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