socialism 
so·cial·ism (sō′s̸həl iz′əm)
noun
- any of various theories or systems of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by society or the community rather than by private individuals, with all members of society or the community sharing in the work and the products
- a political movement for establishing such a system
- the doctrines, methods, etc. of the Socialist parties
- the stage of society, in Marxist doctrine, coming between the capitalist stage and the communist stage, in which private ownership of the means of production and distribution has been eliminated
socialism
n.
Converse of object
- abandon: The other type are the social democrats, who abandoned socialism altogether.
- advocate: Although I now to not advocate Socialism, I am still fervently against US aggression on the country.
- defend: During the 1930s she wrote several articles defending socialism.
- build: The task of building socialism still lies ahead of us.
- believe: We believed that socialism - in our country at least - could not exist without democracy.
- argue: The Stalinists argued that socialism could be built in one country alone - Russia.
Adjective modifier
- Democratic: The title " Campaign for Democratic Socialism " was chosen and a six-man Executive Committee set up with Rodgers as full-time paid Chairman.
- utopian: It was the sort of utopian socialism that was really more like a religion than a political doctrine.
- bureaucratic: Joining fascism and bureaucratic socialism together into a single phenomenon admirably suited the needs of the cold war.
- Cuban: Destruction of Cuban socialism is at the heart of his regime.
- revolutionary: Russia was the one last corner where revolutionary socialism, purity of principle an ideals, still held away.
- municipal: This is not a result of some nostalgic harking back to a golden age of municipal socialism.
Modifies a noun
- cannot: It is perfectly true that socialism cannot be built out of nothing.
- today: The conference agreed targets for building the Socialist Party and increasing sales of the socialist and Socialism Today.
- journal: It first appeared in International Socialism journal in Spring 1967.
Noun used with modifier
- state: After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 it was no longer feasible to praise the virtues of state socialism.
- market: In social science at present there are three main interpretations of market socialism are popular now.
Preposition: in
- country: In these figures, the bankruptcy of socialism in a single country are cruelly revealed.
- century: In International Socialism 100 John Rees has written an important article, entitled " Socialism in the 21st century " .
Preposition: with
- characteristic: They are also working for building socialism with Chinese characteristics.
All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.
The Socialist paperscame out full tothethroat of well- printed matteradmirable and straightforward expositions of the doctrines and practice of Socialism, free from hasteand spiteand hard wordswith a kind of May-day freshness amidst the worryand terror of the moment.
In a recent interview, I was asked what, above all, I associated with socialism inthismodernage.Ianswered that if there was one word I would use to identify modern socialism, it was 'Science'.
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism, and from it, extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly, middle-class parties their nationalism.Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as crystal, the synthesis öGerman National Socialism.
There is nothing in Socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
We will now proceed to the building of socialism.
We are redefining and restating our socialism in terms of thescientific revolution The Britain that will be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
To the ordinary working man, the sort you would meet in any pub on Saturday night, Socialism does not mean much more than better wages and shorter hours and nobody bossing you about.
The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mahometan will co- operate together For, as we have said elsewhere, Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic,Christian norFreethinker,Buddhist,Mahometan, nor Jew; it isonly HUMAN.
The Labour Party's election programmeis the most fantastic and impracticable programme ever put before the electors. This is not socialism. It is bolshevism run mad.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
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