an economic system based on state ownership of capital

a political theory advocating state ownership of industry

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.

The economic doctrine that the welfare of society depends on government control of economic activities, and that economic opportunity should be equal for all; the political movement based on this doctrine.

The name given to schemes for regenerating society by a more equal distribution of property and esp. by substituting the principle of association for that of competition.

Doctrine of a socialist.

A system that at the public collective ownarship of land and capital, and public management of all industries.

A system which, in opposition to the competitive system at present prevailing, seeks to re- organize society on the basis, in the main, of a certain secularism in religion, of community of interest, and of co- operation in labour for the common good.

That system which has for its object the reconstruction of society on the basis of a community of property, and association instead of competition in every branch of human industry; communism.

For the time is at hand when they must cease to look upon socialism as inevitable in order to make it so. – A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

Socialism reached into her mind, to be rejected. – The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey

They are men who have lost faith in political socialism. – A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

Can it be doubted that our own Byrons and Shelleys, with their frothy extravagances about freedom, have largely contributed both to the socialism and to the libertinism with which the politics of every nation in Europe are now infected? – Wagner's Tristan und Isolde by George Ainslie Hight

Socialism, in fact, appears to be a thoroughly " paying concern," into which a young man enters as he might go into the City, with the reasonable expectation of " doing well." – Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta H. Webster

I shall go on to explain what Socialism is, and what Socialism is not. – Britain for the British by Robert Blatchford

Why shouldn't Mugsborough go in for Socialism as well as other towns? – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Quite impotent between 1870 and 1890, they gained no little ground during the struggle against Crispi; but the rise of socialism has weakened them, and the party may now be said to be distinctly in decline. – The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

The waggon of socialism needs to be hitched to the star of religious faith. – The New Theology by R. J. Campbell

Our Socialism has done better for us than that. – A People's Man by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Socialism feels keenly and sees dimly that human affairs are not conducted in conformity with natural laws. – Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski

But you're in favour of socialism and democracy? – Over the Sliprails by Henry Lawson

The development of socialism in the Empire between 1870 and 1880, in respect to both numbers and efficiency of organization, was phenomenal. – The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

The same religious claim has been made for socialism. – The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

And then they'll say that if that's Socialism they don't want no more of it. – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

The Japanese Government seems to some extent to be going in for a policy of State Socialism. – The Empire of the East by H. B. Montgomery

Socialism and the Yellow Peril will be upon us. – Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers

If the church were sure that this is the truth, she would be inclined to throw her influence on the side of Socialism. – The Church and Modern Life by Washington Gladden