Word Finder - socialism

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Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

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The intermediate phase of social development between capitalism and communism in Marxist theory in which the state has control of the means of production.

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Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.

Socialism had become a political force in the land.

His political and social ideas have had a great influence on the development of socialism in France.

But in a world without scarcity, socialism can't even exist.

Another form of state socialism was the acquisition of railways by the state.

Here she met two men, one of whom indoctrinated her with religious mysticism,- the other with advanced socialism, Lamennais and Pierre Leroux.

The limited suffrage had hitherto prevented socialism from becoming a political force in Austria as it had in Germany, and the national divisions have always impeded the Socialism.

Mr. Macdonald published several works on socialism and labour, besides a couple of books on India, which he visited in 1913 as a member of the Public Services Commission.

Here he took a prominent part in the workmen's movement and in the association of working men which had been founded under the influence of SchultzDelitzsch; at first an opponent of socialism, he came under the influence of Liebknecht, and after 1865 he was a confirmed advocate of socialism.

It championed the rights of private ownership against Socialism, and combated the anti-Rome movement which was taking place throughout the republic. In foreign affairs it supported the Government.

He was the leader of the free traders, and after 1878 refused to follow Bismarck in his new policy of protection, state socialism and colonial development; in a celebrated speech he declared that the day on which it was introduced was a dies nefastus for Germany.

He was one of the few prominent politicians who consistently maintained the struggle against state socialism on the one hand and democratic socialism on the other.

Christian socialism becomes a real force when it translates itself into anti-Semitism; and anti-Semitism is at its strongest when it is pursuing one particular Jewish captain in the French artillery.

In contemporary movements he was an earnest and conscientious advocate of Catholic democracy and socialism and of the view that the church should adapt itself to the changed political conditions consequent to the Revolution.

For him, socialism is not a Utopian fantasy that covers the real business of shooting people.

Their resolution was vague and patchy, with a token nod to socialism.

During the 1930s she wrote several articles defending socialism.

The Stalinists argued that socialism could be built in one country alone - Russia.

The 1945 government was the apotheosis of bureaucratic socialism, founded on the principles of collectivism, central economic planning, and redistributive taxation.

In the days when socialism stalked the land, we properly opposed state collectivism.

One nation conservatism has nothing in common with the socialism of the Labor Party, Old or New.

Why is there no party which sets the aim of a democratic republican constitution on the road to socialism?

In 1889 he published his personal artistic credo, The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

Marx and Engels were fiercely critical of these various strands of socialism, as the final sections of the Manifesto explain in some detail.

Putting forward socialism as the only immediate aim, it politically disarmed Polish revolutionaries.

The Leeds branches of the Alliance for Green Socialism are going to inaugurate a local " Claire Short " award for political duplicity.

Values are weakly anthropocentric and ecocentric Advocates forms of direct and cosmopolitan democracy with active citizenship Allows and promotes the greening of socialism.

The Ba'ath Party, founded in Syria during the 1940s, espoused radical Arab nationalism and socialism.

It was not associated with religion in Plato, nor in other notably repressive societies like that of Russian communism or german National Socialism.

The rule of the bureaucracy remained an insurmountable obstacle, blocking the road toward socialism.

Of course the policy probably predates British socialism I'd imagine.

By far the most important such amendment was the theory of socialism in one country, first promulgated by Stalin in autumn 1924.

No longer is socialism in Scotland dominated by the ideas of Stalinism or parliamentary reformism.

The other type are the social democrats, who abandoned socialism altogether.

Although I now to not advocate socialism, I am still fervently against US aggression on the country.

The task of building socialism still lies ahead of us.

We believed that socialism - in our country at least - could not exist without democracy.

The title " Campaign for democratic socialism " was chosen and a six-man Executive Committee set up with Rodgers as full-time paid Chairman.

It was the sort of Utopian socialism that was really more like a religion than a political doctrine.

Joining fascism and bureaucratic socialism together into a single phenomenon admirably suited the needs of the cold war.

Destruction of Cuban socialism is at the heart of his regime.

Russia was the one last corner where revolutionary socialism, purity of principle an ideals, still held away.

This is not a result of some nostalgic harking back to a golden age of municipal socialism.

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 it was no longer feasible to praise the virtues of state socialism.

In social science at present there are three main interpretations of market socialism are popular now.

In International socialism 100 John Rees has written an important article, entitled " Socialism in the 21st century " .

Even earlier, Shaw, who thought socialism needed a superman, had found more than one.

How the rich became super-rich Come to Socialism 2006 Blairites trounced in Labor heartlands Come to Summer Camp!

Utopian socialism was unable to show a real way out.

Socialism was a more lasting phase, but her natural good sense revolted at the extravagant mummeries of Pere Enfantin and she declined the office of high priestess.

This preposterous proposal was of course not even discussed, and the movement caused a strong feeling of reaction against Socialism and of hostility to the government for its weakness; for, however much sympathy there might be with the genuine grievances of the working classes, the September strikes were of a frankly revolutionary character and had been fomented by professional agitators and kept going by the dregs of the people.