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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.

A system of government in which means of production and distribution of goods are controlled by the state.

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.

n. A system in political economy advocated and partially adopted, to secure equal distribution of property and wealth in the community, and abolish individual or separate rights and interests.