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state socialism

noun

  1. the theory, doctrine, and movement advocating a planned economy controlled by the state, with state ownership of all industries and natural resources.


state socialism

noun

  1. a variant of socialism in which the power of the state is employed for the purpose of creating an egalitarian society by means of public control of major industries, banks, etc, coupled with economic planning and a social security system
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • state socialist, noun
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Other Words From

  • state socialist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of state socialism1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

Newsflash for the sentimental leftists polluting my Twitter timeline with Chavez apologia: state socialism doesn't work.

Conservatives, he said, were “shrieking to high heaven,” attacking the New Deal as “state socialism.”

Mazzini carefully dissociated himself alike from the laissez-faire school and a despotic state socialism.

But his proposals for state settlements were what we should call state socialism to-day.

But under a system of state socialism the situation would be wholly changed.

His ministry had, however, passed one important measure which individualists regarded as an act of state-socialism.

But by the growth of State socialism the economic power of the private capitalists is steadily weakened.

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