单词 | socialism |
释义 | socialism/ˈsəʊʃəlɪz(ə)m![]() noun [mass noun] 1A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.With the advent of Karl Marx, socialism became a science....
1.1Policy or practice based on the political and economic theory of socialism.Alex spells out in some detail how a democratically planned socialism could work, and why to do so it must be an international system....
1.2(In Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of Communism.The Russian Revolution itself was but one episode in the transition from capitalism to socialism....
The term ‘socialism’ has been used to describe positions as far apart as anarchism, Soviet state Communism, and social democracy; however, it necessarily implies an opposition to the untrammelled workings of the economic market. The socialist parties that have arisen in most European countries from the late 19th century have generally tended towards social democracy. OriginEarly 19th century: from French socialisme, from social (see social). |
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