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