state socialistn.adj.

1879 G. J. Holyoake in 19th Cent. 1116 True co-operators are no State Socialists.

1888 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 383 Rodbertus, the remarkable but overrated thinker whom the State-Socialists of Germany have chosen for their father.

1921 G. R. Askwith Industr. Probl. & Disputes xxxi. 320 State socialists..seem to regard the community in its corporate capacity as a kind of earthly providence.

1999 A. Carter Radical Green Polit. Theory vii. 258 It is often assumed that anarchists must always be closer to liberals than to state socialists.

1882 Hist. of Year 296 Bismarck..plainly avowed that he intended to carry his State Socialist schemes against the will of both Parliament and people.

1886 Liberty (Boston) 8/1 The females who have recourse to it [sc. prostitution]..in a good State Socialist régime will doubtless be pensioned by government.

1968 H. W. Laidler Hist. Socialism xliii. 742 Mr. Hillquit's distinction between government ownership and collective ownership..was..the distinction made between the state socialist and the democratic socialist approach.

1993 Lang. in Society 22 348 The president of the town council was..a politician agile in the ways of state-socialist bureaucracy.

2012 Z. Barany Soldier & Changing State 341 In state-socialist regimes parliaments were little more than façade institutions.

1879 G. J. Holyoake in 19th Cent. 1115 The only persons in this country likely to be suspected of the State Socialistic craze are the working class co-operators.

1921 P. T. Moon Labor Probl. & Social Catholic Movement in France iii. 107 Such measures would take on more and more a state-socialistic character.

1999 A. Kwiatowska in D. Crouch Leisure/Tourism Geographies ix. 131 The state socialistic system strengthened non-consumptive values.