Socialism

Having fled Russia on the eve of its revolution, Illakowicz was fully aware of the death camps and torture cells of International Socialism, which had been rumbling on for 20 years prior to Hitler's National Socialism even being thought of.

The whining about “Socialism” these days from people that are literally benefiting from the very socialism that they complain of is ridiculous.

Despite the many flaws of China’s proclaimed “Socialism with Chinese characteristics”, China’s economic success has proven an essential truth: when given the opportunity, socialism succeeds.

Most of these figures had also embraced socialism, particularly Marxian socialism.

In explaining his socialism, he himself instead makes references to Scandinavian countries as examples of socialism that works, and he’s right.

The problem is that, while there are vast ideological differences between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism, there is simply no systemic difference between the two.

But it’s 2019, not 1949; socialism doesn’t automatically evoke the anymore, and fewer Americans now associate socialism with government control or ownership.

In terms of the twentieth-century tension between socialism and capitalism, people may be inclined to favor socialism because they have a mistaken perception of capitalism.

Just a few days following what I thought was a good State of the Union address from President Trump, all you hear on the lamestream news outlets is green this, green that, and socialism this and socialism that.

The announcement of Ms. Monopoly comes a few weeks after the company received criticism for Monopoly Socialism -- a tongue-in-cheek game that sparked debate for its flippant handling of socialism.

The left claims a major difference between “lovely democratic socialism” and the socialism of the past that has never actually been successful.

Based on their speeches, many Chinese leaders seem to argue that China is currently in a “primary phase of socialism,” an essential step toward developing the necessary productive forces for full-fledged socialism.

Although he was clear on distancing himself from the African socialism of many of his contemporaries, Nkrumah argued that socialism was the system that would best accommodate the changes that capitalism had brought, while still respecting African values.

A planned economy is not the definition of socialism, because there is planning under capitalism; the market economy happens under socialism, too.

Bhikhu Parekh in The Concepts of Socialism (1975) identifies four core principles of socialism and particularly socialist society: sociality, social responsibility, cooperation, and planning.

Cooperative socialism Libertarian socialists and left-anarchists often promote a form of market socialism in which enterprises are owned and managed cooperatively by their workforce so that the profits directly remunerate the employee-owners.

Eliade, Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries, in Ellwood 91–92 In his article "The Christian Mythology of Socialism", Will Herberg argues that socialism inherits the structure of its ideology from the influence of Christian mythology upon western thought.

For Schumacher, to banish National Socialism meant replacing the capitalist system with a Marxist socialist system, whereas, for Adenauer, banishing National Socialism meant purging Prussianism.

Further, some distributists argue that socialism is the logical conclusion of capitalism as capitalism's concentrated powers eventually capture the state, resulting in a form of socialism.

Howard Quint, The Forging of American Socialism: Origins of the Modern Movement: The Impact of Socialism on American Thought and Action, 1886–1901.