as in liberalism
a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies
an ardent opponent of socialism
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Recent Examples of socialism
Totalitarianism and socialism are simply morally wrong, not merely only non-efficacious, ineffective, uneconomical.
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Walter E Block, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
Stossel cited a Pew study indicating that a third of adult Americans view socialism positively.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
In other words, despite its seeming departure from Maine’s binary logic, the Second World was really a slice of the non-West that, contrary to expectations, embraced an explicitly secular and modernizing agenda: socialism.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
What's happening in Illinois exemplifies modern socialism's playbook.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Walter E Block, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
Stossel cited a Pew study indicating that a third of adult Americans view socialism positively.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
In other words, despite its seeming departure from Maine’s binary logic, the Second World was really a slice of the non-West that, contrary to expectations, embraced an explicitly secular and modernizing agenda: socialism.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
What's happening in Illinois exemplifies modern socialism's playbook.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialism
liberalism
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He’s routinely refocused Labour away from metropolitan lifestyle liberalism, to bread-and-butter issues of government delivering good service.—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 May 2025
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For the Trump administration, Harvard presents the first major hurdle in its attempt to force change at universities that Republicans say have become hotbeds of liberalism and antisemitism.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Socialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialism. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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