Socialism is a political theory the central tenets of which are that the means of production should be taken into collective or common ownership and that, as far as possible, market exchange should be replaced by other forms of distribution based on...

As with communism, socialism can mean a variety of different things, not because of ambiguity or vagueness, but because it is a concept that operates in several different ideological vocabularies. Within Marxism, socialism has a very technical meaning,...

A way of organizing an economy so that the society owns productive capital and distributes the NATIONAL INCOME for the benefit of all. It is the alternative to uncontrolled CAPITALISM and to some extent a rejection of market mechanisms. Early...

Political ideology that relates to communal ownership of property and state welfare for...

Socialism is a broad array of ideologies and political movements with the goal of a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community[1] for the purposes of increasing social and economic...

Around 2.7 million people have incorrect Social Security payment information on a needed tax document, the Social Security Administration said Thursday as the agency moved quickly to mail out corrections.The document affected is the Social Security Benefit Statement, or Form SSA-1099. That document is needed...

In another jab at his chief rival, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says in an ad released Sunday that the country needs an honest dialogue about Social Security in order to fix the system.Obama launched the spot a day after he directly challenged Hillary Rodham...

Robert M. Ball, a former Social Security commissioner considered by many as its chief defender and the father of Medicare, has died at age 93.Ball's death Tuesday was announced by the National Academy of Social Insurance, which he founded in 1986. No cause was given.Ball...

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In the following essay, first published in 1983, Taylor surveys the principal nineteenth-century feminist proponents of Robert Owen's socialist thought.

In the following essay, Lawler elucidates Alexis de Tocqueville's view of—and opposition to—socialism.

In the following essay, Brown explores the significance of food and gastronomy in the thought of three French socialist theorists—Pierre Leroux, Etienne Cabet, and Charles Fourier.

Can socialism be effectively combined with democracy to make a good government? The makeup of today's society, particularly the current decline of the working class, makes it difficult to answer the question in the affirmative.