a set of political and economic theories based on the belief that everyone has an equal right to a share of a country’s wealth and that the government should own and control the main industries
They are trying to build socialism in their own country.
Marx claimed that his was the first scientific socialism.
socialism
noun- a set of political and economic theories based on the belief that everyone has an equal right to a share of a country’s wealth and that the government should own and control the main industries
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Topics Politicsc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French socialisme, from social from Old French, or from Latin socialis ‘allied’, from socius ‘friend’.
See socialism in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee socialism in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English- They are trying to build socialism in their own country.
- Marx claimed that his was the first scientific socialism.
compare capitalism, communism, social democracy- democratic
- revolutionary
- scientific
- …
verb + socialism- build
- establish
preposition- under socialism
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