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The phrase "mother country" is best associated with the economic philosophy known as

A. capitalism.
B. laissez-faire.
C. socialism.
D. mercantilism.

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C) socialism because it is most directly associated with Russia or at the time the USSR, which was a mother country because it had various assimilated "satellite states" surrounding it which were not initially part of it and yet were socialist under the USSR.  
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