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
  • This has meant an abrupt return to some statist socialism.
    Patricia Laya, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2020
  • This was utter nonsense, and not just the socialism part.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • That was an example of what Sanders calls socialism for the rich.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2020
  • So, capitalism on the way up and socialism on the way down is neither.
    CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The governor went on to slam the left for being soft on crime and embracing socialism.
    Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • And too many here at home are beguiled by socialism’s false promises.
    The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Further, his instincts seemed to steer him away from overt socialism.
    Robert W. Merry, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • At the heart of socialism is the idea that government and its bureaucracies know better.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Many felt that a balance of both capitalism and socialism was best.
    Lisa Bennatan, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The most prominent theme, however, will be the call to arms against socialism.
    Edward Morrissey, TheWeek, 27 Feb. 2020
  • This resistance wine mom clearly just wants to rail on socialism cause all us youths are into it now.
    Ashley Fetters, The Atlantic, 23 May 2020
  • The second is held by those who think socialism is the answer to a host of problems from climate change to inequality.
    Nikki Haley, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Again, England was bankrupted by the war, along with the soft socialism that followed.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Mr Trump will be quick to blame any stockmarket weakness on the spectre of socialism.
    The Economist, 25 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Among a swath of young Americans, talk of socialism has lost its stigma.
    Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • Trump has made clear that his binary choice will be between socialism and something else.
    Philip Elliott / Charleston, Time, 19 June 2019
  • How long can this odd pairing of socialism and oligopoly persist?
    Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 4 June 2017
  • Capitalism is not about to crash and burn, and allow socialism to sprout from its rubble.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • She and her sisters were raised in no faith except that of republicanism and socialism.
    Lauren Elkin, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • There’s Bernie Sanders, who might start yelling at you about socialism at any moment.
    Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Democrats have some baggage around socialism and some other issues.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • However, Spears’ class has nothing to do with singing or the basics of socialism.
    Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 12 May 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
  • To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 27 June 2018

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