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
That's why socialism keeps falling flat with us.
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Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
In June, Thiel suggested to the Times that Musk has given up on Mars, at least as an all-consuming political goal, after concluding that socialism and wokeness risked following humanity there, meaning that the priority had to be stopping those values on Earth first.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
The answer is that communism and socialism are not synonymous.
—Mark Satta, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
If socialism is government owning the means of production, wouldn’t the government owning part of Intel be a step toward socialism?
Terrible idea.
—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2025
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Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
In June, Thiel suggested to the Times that Musk has given up on Mars, at least as an all-consuming political goal, after concluding that socialism and wokeness risked following humanity there, meaning that the priority had to be stopping those values on Earth first.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
The answer is that communism and socialism are not synonymous.
—Mark Satta, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
If socialism is government owning the means of production, wouldn’t the government owning part of Intel be a step toward socialism?
Terrible idea.
—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialism
liberalism
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Although the book is set in an unnamed year, Harold easily tracks as the type of male voter who has recently drifted toward the political right, animated by suspicions that modern liberalism has forgotten about people like him.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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And in modern American culture, liberalism is being squeezed from both sides of the political aisle.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Socialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialism. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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