Though the World Society has soured most Coalition citizens on the very idea of socialist principles, a handful of Socialists escaped with the Exodus from Earth, mostly for the fact that they were religious (primarily of Jewish and Christian faith) and considered subversives even amongst their fellow Socialists in the Society.
In the centuries since, the Christian-Socialist Party has made a slight comeback, mostly by appealing to the idea of charity being a virtue amongst Christians. More along Democratic-Socialist lines than anything else, the Christian-Socialists decry corporate culture and unchecked consumer capitalism as unreligious, inspiring greed and envy, and emphasize the wealth redistribution basis of their platform as an expression of charity to the unfortunate - one of the party's slogans (unpopular amongst their critics) is "Jesus was a Socialist".
The Christian-Socialists are scattered widely throughout the Coalition, a fact that has made it hard for them to gain major political positions. They have never had more than three percent of the seats in the Assembly for this reason, and have never had a Senate seat.

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