as in liberalism
a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies
an ardent opponent of socialism
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Her early essays, written through a Marxian lens, proclaimed revolutionary socialism as justice’s true path.
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Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
As for socialism, the factories of the Eastern Bloc gobbled up resources, using two to three times as much steel as capitalist factories for every dollar of output produced.
—Matthew Mitchell, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
Khrushchev sought to revive revolutionary elan and push the USSR to the final stage of history, the transition from socialism to communism, during which the state apparatus would finally wither away.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Feminism, existentialism, socialism, and humanism.
—Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
As for socialism, the factories of the Eastern Bloc gobbled up resources, using two to three times as much steel as capitalist factories for every dollar of output produced.
—Matthew Mitchell, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
Khrushchev sought to revive revolutionary elan and push the USSR to the final stage of history, the transition from socialism to communism, during which the state apparatus would finally wither away.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Feminism, existentialism, socialism, and humanism.
—Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialism
liberalism
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In fact, every No Kings speaker offered a version of this, portraying pluralist liberalism as a way to follow in the founders’ footsteps.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Sandinista ideology blended Marxism, liberalism, and nationalism, borrowing ideas from both sides of the Iron Curtain.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Socialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialism. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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