socialism

Etymology
Attested since 1832; either from or from.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
 * 2) A system of social and economic equality in which there is no private property.
 * 3) A system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.
 * 4)  The intermediate phase of social development between capitalism and communism in Marxist theory in which the state has control of the means of production.
 * 5) Any of a group of later political philosophies such democratic socialism and social democracy which do not envisage the need for full state ownership of the means of production nor transition to full communism, and which are typically based on principles of community decision making, social equality and the avoidance of economic and social exclusion, with economic policy giving first preference to community goals over individual ones.
 * 6)  Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
 * 1)  The intermediate phase of social development between capitalism and communism in Marxist theory in which the state has control of the means of production.
 * 2) Any of a group of later political philosophies such democratic socialism and social democracy which do not envisage the need for full state ownership of the means of production nor transition to full communism, and which are typically based on principles of community decision making, social equality and the avoidance of economic and social exclusion, with economic policy giving first preference to community goals over individual ones.
 * 3)  Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
 * 1) Any of a group of later political philosophies such democratic socialism and social democracy which do not envisage the need for full state ownership of the means of production nor transition to full communism, and which are typically based on principles of community decision making, social equality and the avoidance of economic and social exclusion, with economic policy giving first preference to community goals over individual ones.
 * 2)  Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: sosialisme
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: اِشْتِرَاكِيَّة
 * Aragonese: sozialismo
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: সমাজবাদ
 * Asturian: socialismu
 * Azerbaijani: sosializm
 * Belarusian: сацыялі́зм
 * Bengali:
 * Bishnupriya Manipuri: সমাজতন্ত্র
 * Bulgarian: социали́зъм
 * Burmese: ဆိုရှယ်လစ်ဝါဒ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 社會主義
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: sotsialism
 * Faroese: sosialisma
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სოციალიზმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: jafnaðarstefna, sósíalismi
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: sóisialachas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: социализм
 * Khmer: សង្គមនិយម
 * Khoekhoe: sosialesmeb
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: سۆسیالیزم
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ສັງຄົມນິຍົມ
 * Latvian: sociālisms
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: социјали́зам
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: സോഷ്യലിസം, സമാജവാദം
 * Maori: angaporitanga
 * Marathi: समाजवाद
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, нийгэм журам
 * Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠢᠭᠡᠮ ᠵᠢᠷᠤᠮ, ᠰᠣᠼᠢᠶᠠᠯᠢᠰᠮ
 * Norman: socialisme
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sosialisme
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto:, سوشليزم
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian: suocēlėzmos, socialėzmos
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: социјалѝзам
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: sucialìsimu
 * Slovak: socializmus
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ulnungkuro
 * Tai Lü: ᦵᦉᦲᧈᦃᦼᧈᦋᦴᦊᦲᧈ
 * Tajik: сотсиализм
 * Tamil: சமவுடமை
 * Tatar: социализм
 * Telugu: సమాజవాదము, సమాజవాదం
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: སྤྱི་ཚོགས་རིང་ལུགས
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sosializm
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: اشتراکیت, سوشلزم
 * Uyghur: سوتسىيالىزم
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa xã hội (主義社會)
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: סאָציאַליזם


 * Afrikaans: sosialisme
 * Albanian: socializmi
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: социјали́зам
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sosialisme
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: социјалѝзам
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans: sosialisme
 * Albanian: socializmi
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: социјали́зам
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sosialisme
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: социјалѝзам
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Breton:
 * Estonian:
 * Vietnamese:, ,

Etymology
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Etymology
. . Attested since 1848.