How to Use socialism in a Sentence

socialism

noun

• So this is full bore socialism on the march in the House.
  — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 26 June 2020
• Democrats have chosen to go down the road to socialism.
  — Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2020
• So think of me as the Grim Reaper: the guy who is going to make sure that socialism doesn't land on the president's desk.
  — Jason Silverstein, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2019
• That was an example of what Sanders calls socialism for the rich.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2020
• This was utter nonsense, and not just the socialism part.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
• The Gulf of Mexico hasn’t seen that much socialism in action since the Mariel boatlift.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 9 July 2021
• This has meant an abrupt return to some statist socialism.
  — Patricia Laya, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2020
• Again, England was bankrupted by the war, along with the soft socialism that followed.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• Trump’s team has tried to paint Biden as an empty suit trying to disguise the threat of socialism.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
• There’s Bernie Sanders, who might start yelling at you about socialism at any moment.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 1 Feb. 2018
• If anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools, what to make of anti-Zionism?
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• To bring up the subject of providing a better life is to lean too far left, to flirt with socialism.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Tom Branson tries to ruin dinner in the name of socialism.
  — Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, Town & Country, 17 May 2022
• So, capitalism on the way up and socialism on the way down is neither.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
• And then too there were socialism and socialists to beat back, and boy oh boy did Al ever want in on that.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• Long ago, in Red Vienna, after the Great War, in the 1920s, there was a brief movement seeking a new type of socialism.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• And when tasked with giving Duke a ride home, Hopper skipped his film pitch and lectured her on socialism.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• The governor went on to slam the left for being soft on crime and embracing socialism.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2022
• The most prominent theme, however, will be the call to arms against socialism.
  — Edward Morrissey, TheWeek, 27 Feb. 2020
• And too many here at home are beguiled by socialism’s false promises.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
• The most obvious is that the GDR provides a striking case study in the history of socialism.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the edifice of Albanian socialism collapsed, too.
  — The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
• Among a swath of young Americans, talk of socialism has lost its stigma.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Mr Trump will be quick to blame any stockmarket weakness on the spectre of socialism.
  — The Economist, 25 Dec. 2019
• The Republican Party is further down the road to fascism than the Democrats are to socialism.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2022
• Further, his instincts seemed to steer him away from overt socialism.
  — Robert W. Merry, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
• Their two adult children are to the left of the Democratic Party and are open to supporting socialism.
  — Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
• However, Spears’ class has nothing to do with singing or the basics of socialism.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020
• As far as his Zenith world is concerned, though, this apostasy is the first step on the road to that ultimate evil — socialism!
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• Among young Americans, socialism is ever less of a boo word (see chart 2).
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 9 May 2024