'Socialism' definitions:
Definition of 'socialism'
(from WordNet)
noun
A political theory advocating state ownership of industry
noun
An economic system based on state ownership of capital [syn: socialism, socialist economy] [ant: capitalism, capitalist economy]
Definition of 'Socialism'
From: GCIDE
- Socialism \So"cial*ism\, n. [Cf. F. socialisme.] A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism. [1913 Webster]
- [Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy. --Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster]
- We certainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social existence for the mass of the workers. --F. Harrison. [1913 Webster]
- Socialism of the chair [G. katheder socialismus], a term applied about 1872, at first in ridicule, to a group of German political economists who advocated state aid for the betterment of the working classes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'socialism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- centralism,
- collective farm,
- collective ownership,
- collectivism,
- collectivity,
- collegiality,
- common ownership,
- communal effort,
- communion,
- communism,
- community,
- constitutionalism,
- cooperation,
- cooperative society,
- democracy,
- democratism,
- Fabian socialism,
- Fabianism,
- fascism,
- federalism,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- governmentalism,
- guild socialism,
- imperialism,
- kibbutz,
- kolkhoz,
- Marxian socialism,
- Marxism,
- monarchism,
- national socialism,
- nationalization,
- Nazism,
- neofascism,
- parliamentarianism,
- parliamentarism,
- phalansterism,
- pluralism,
- political principles,
- profit sharing,
- public ownership,
- republicanism,
- royalism,
- Saint-Simonism,
- sharecropping,
- state ownership,
- state socialism,
- statism,
- town meeting,
- utopian socialism
Words containing 'Socialism'
- Social,
- Sociality,
- Socialize,
- Socially,
- Socialness,
- socialization,
- socialized,
- socializer,
- socializing,
- Christian Socialism,
- Social Circle,
- Social science,
- Social statics,
- Social whale,
- Socialism of the chair,
- State socialism,
- The social evil,
- guild socialism,
- national socialism,
- social action,
- social activity,
- social affair,
- social anthropologist,
- social anthropology,
- social assistance,
- social class,
- social climber,
- social climbing,
- social club,
- social contract,
- social control,
- social convention,
- social dancer,
- social dancing,
- social democracy,
- social disease,
- social drinker,
- social event,
- social function,
- social gathering,
- social grace,
- social group,
- social insect,
- social insurance,
- social intercourse,
- social lion,
- social movement,
- social occasion,
- social organisation,
- social organization,
- social outcast,
- social phobia,
- social policy,
- social process,
- social psychology,
- social rank,
- social reformer,
- social relation,
- social scientist,
- social season,
- social secretary,
- social security,
- social service,
- social station,
- social status,
- social stratification,
- social structure,
- social system,
- social unit,
- social welfare,
- social work,
- social worker,
- socialized medicine,
- utopian socialism,
- Social Circle, GA,
- economic and social council,
- medical social worker,
- social democratic party,
- social development commission,
- social security administration,
- social security number,
- economic and social council commission,
- socially connected well-connected