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socialism

noun as in socialist government

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That Republicans are running ads attacking expanded government health care as socialism while offering nothing serious of their own amid a pandemic says it all.

Moderates blame liberals for promoting socialism and proposals to “defund the police.”

In one of three ads unveiled Thursday, participants in a roundtable discussion tout Trump’s stewardship of the economy, with one woman describing him as “the only barrier between us and socialism.”

This may sound like nomenclatural hair-splitting to you — the difference between a “social democracy” and “democratic socialism” — but Sachs argues otherwise.

She believed in the hopeful socialism of the early 20th century, when people who thought that equality was within their grasp if only they could undermine the capitalist system.

He expected European capitalism to evolve spontaneously into a market socialism of worker-owned cooperatives.

So a United States senator has no idea what "national socialism" means.

But at any rate, we have to change course because our country is headed for national socialism.

These, he insisted, were harbingers of the twin plagues of socialism and secular humanism.

“Welfarism,” as Goldwater constantly called welfare, was the path to socialism.

Now many people think that we are moving in the direction of world socialism to-day.

Many people when presented with the argument above, would settle it at once with the word "socialism."

Thus seen, socialism appeared as the very antithesis of law and order, of love and chastity, and of religion itself.

It remained for the age of machinery and power to bring forth another and a vastly more potent socialism.

Socialism, like every other impassioned human effort, will flourish best under martyrdom.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to socialism, such as: communism, bolshevism, collectivism, fabianism, leninism, and maoism.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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