Socialism

Noun

 * 1) Any of various economic and political philosophies that support social equality, collective decision-making, distribution of income based on contribution and public ownership of productive capital and natural resources, as advocated by socialists.
 * 2) The socialist political philosophies as a group, including Marxism, libertarian socialism, democratic socialism, and social democracy.
 * 3)  The intermediate phase of social development between capitalism and full communism. This is a strategy whereby the state has control of all key resource-producing industries and manages most aspects of the economy, in contrast to laissez faire capitalism.

Adjectives for Socialism
practical; political; proletarian; anarcho; economic; imperial; bourgeois; democratic; guild; Islamic; libertarian; market; popular; deadly; liberal; unnatural; national; pure; revisionist; scientific; state; utopian; voluntary; yellow; Zionist;

Verbs for Socialism
advocate—; combat—; define—; frown upon—; oppose—; prate of—; promote—; rant against—; reject—; —burrows into; —cankers; —confiscates; —controls; —disposes of; —ebbs; —equals; —flourishes; —frees; —humanizes; —levels; —liberates; —manifests; —paralyzes; —regulates; — relinquishes; —remedies; —shares; —shatters; —undermines; —wages; —wars against.

Thesaurus
Fabian socialism, Fabianism, Marxian socialism, Marxism, Nazism, Saint-Simonism, centralism, collective farm, collective ownership, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, common ownership, communal effort, communion, communism, community, constitutionalism, cooperation, cooperative society, democracy, democratism, fascism, federalism, feudalism, feudality, governmentalism, guild socialism, imperialism, kibbutz, kolkhoz, monarchism, national socialism, nationalization, neofascism, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, phalansterism, pluralism, political principles, profit sharing, public ownership, republicanism, royalism, sharecropping, state ownership, state socialism, statism, town meeting, utopian socialism

Derived terms

 * socialist

Related terms

 * social

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: اشتراكية
 * Aragonese: sozialismo
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: socialismu
 * Azeri: sosializm
 * Belarusian: сацыялізм
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 * Sicilian: sucialìsimu
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 * Tamil: சமவுடமை
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 * Turkish: sosyalizm
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: اشتراکیت, سوشلزم, سماجواد
 * Vietnamese: (主義社會)
 * Volapük: sogädim
 * Yiddish: סאציאליזם


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Noun

 * 1) socialism