socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not …

Socialism is a form of government in which most forms of property, including at least the major means of production and natural resources, are owned or controlled by the state.

Instead of revolution, the Fabians favoured “gradualism” as the way to bring about socialism. Their notion of socialism, like Saint-Simon’s, entailed social control of property through an …

socialism, System of social organization in which private property and the distribution of income are subject to social control; also, the political movements aimed at putting that system into …

Introduction Socialism is a way to organize a society. It deals mostly with the economy, or the part of a society that creates wealth. The goal of socialism is to spread wealth more evenly and to …

Democratic socialism, political ideology that supports the establishment of a democratically run and decentralized form of socialist economy. Modern democratic socialists vary widely in their …

Economic Equality, Collective Ownership, Social Justice: World War II forged an uneasy alliance between communists and socialists—and between liberals and conservatives—in their …

Socialism is an economic system in which private property is allowed but the major industries are communally owned and operated by the democratically elected government.

SOCIALISM meaning: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies

Socialism is a political and economic system in which most forms of economically valuable property and resources are owned or controlled by the public or the state.