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socialism

/soh-shuh-liz-uhm/US // ˈsoʊ ʃəˌlɪz əm //UK // (ˈsəʊʃəˌlɪzəm) //

社会主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a theory or system of social organization that advocates the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, capital, land, etc., by the community as a whole, usually through a centralized government.
    • : procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
    • : the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

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Examples

  • That Republicans are running ads attacking expanded government health care as socialism while offering nothing serious of their own amid a pandemic says it all.

  • Moderates blame liberals for promoting socialism and proposals to “defund the police.”

  • In one of three ads unveiled Thursday, participants in a roundtable discussion tout Trump’s stewardship of the economy, with one woman describing him as “the only barrier between us and socialism.”

  • This may sound like nomenclatural hair-splitting to you — the difference between a “social democracy” and “democratic socialism” — but Sachs argues otherwise.

  • She believed in the hopeful socialism of the early 20th century, when people who thought that equality was within their grasp if only they could undermine the capitalist system.

  • He expected European capitalism to evolve spontaneously into a market socialism of worker-owned cooperatives.

  • So a United States senator has no idea what "national socialism" means.

  • But at any rate, we have to change course because our country is headed for national socialism.

  • These, he insisted, were harbingers of the twin plagues of socialism and secular humanism.

  • “Welfarism,” as Goldwater constantly called welfare, was the path to socialism.

  • Now many people think that we are moving in the direction of world socialism to-day.

  • Many people when presented with the argument above, would settle it at once with the word "socialism."

  • Thus seen, socialism appeared as the very antithesis of law and order, of love and chastity, and of religion itself.

  • It remained for the age of machinery and power to bring forth another and a vastly more potent socialism.

  • Socialism, like every other impassioned human effort, will flourish best under martyrdom.