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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What's the difference between regular socialism and democratic socialism?
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Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Which reminds me of a young man in Albania under the Communists who explained the country’s heavy-handed socialism to me.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Republicans once warned that socialism begins with good intentions and ends with bureaucratic command.
—Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
However, a recent Gallup poll found that attitudes toward socialism may be changing among left-leaning Americans, with 66% of Democrats now having a positive view of socialism, up from 50% in 2010.
—Halle Troadec, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
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Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
Which reminds me of a young man in Albania under the Communists who explained the country’s heavy-handed socialism to me.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Republicans once warned that socialism begins with good intentions and ends with bureaucratic command.
—Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
However, a recent Gallup poll found that attitudes toward socialism may be changing among left-leaning Americans, with 66% of Democrats now having a positive view of socialism, up from 50% in 2010.
—Halle Troadec, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialism
liberalism
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Democrats didn’t start the year expecting to borrow tricks from Newsom, the embodiment of the sort of California liberalism that Republicans everywhere else like to run against.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Sandinista ideology blended Marxism, liberalism, and nationalism, borrowing ideas from both sides of the Iron Curtain.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Socialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialism. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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