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Socialism has been one of the most popular political ideas in history, rivaling in some ways even the great religions. By the late 1970s, a mere 150 years from the time the term socialism was coined, roughly 60 percent of the world population was...

Socialism This entry is concerned with "socialism" from the time at which, so far as anyone knows, the word was first used in print to describe a view of what human society should be like. This was in 1827, in the English Co-operative...

Socialism [addendum] Socialism has seen enormous changes since the above entry was written. Its cachet has gone up and down and, after an all-time low during the early 1990s, is now perhaps going to go up again. The socialist ideal fell on hard times...

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...

System of social organization in which private property and the distribution of income are subject to social control; also, the political movements aimed at putting that system into practice. Because “social control” may be interpreted in...

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...