socialism

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World famous Lawn Rangers get ready for Barack Obama's inauguration parade Hugo Chavez to oil companies: Baby come back, my socialism was a huge god damn mistake Hell I had ice packs for my insulin for my last tr To tell the truth, tautogramming T's to taunt tota F*ck Gluck.

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  1. noun Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
  2. noun The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved.

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  • According to Labour socialism is a new idea and not failed tired old philosophy. —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
  • The term socialism was associated with a movement for the gradual transformation of the means of production into cooperative property and an artisan type of ownership. —  Political Affairs Magazine
  • World famous Lawn Rangers get ready for Barack Obama's inauguration parade Hugo Chavez to oil companies: Baby come back, my socialism was a huge god damn mistake. —  Home
  • World famous Lawn Rangers get ready for Barack Obama's inauguration parade Hugo Chavez to oil companies: Baby come back, my socialism was a huge god damn mistake Hell I had ice packs for my insulin for my last tr To tell the truth, tautogramming T's to taunt tota F*ck Gluck. —  Home
  • A core presumption in French socialism and English and American liberal-progressivism was that science's apparent conquest of nature would also entail the ability of governments to change and perfect human nature. —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
 

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  1. = French socialisme = Spanish Portuguese socialismo = German socialismus; as social + -ism.
 

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/ˈsoʊʃəlɪzm/
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