statism
/ˈsteɪtɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun]
A political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs: the rise of authoritarian statism...
- The split will be between the two philosophies of big government statism and small government constitutionalism.
- Liberalism, welfare statism, mixed economyism, socialism, fascism, communism, national socialism and statist conservatism have all been resounding failures.
- Nowhere was it tried - and I mean real socialism, not welfare statism - where tyranny, misery, poverty, fear and oppression failed to follow.