Sentences with phrase «socialism means state»

(Therefore, I am not a socialist, if socialism means state ownership of the means of production.

Socialism means state ownership or control of the means of production in an economy.

Not exact matches

In practice, however, socialism means ownership by the state, which may or may not represent the people.

Socialism is the economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned by the state, which decides through central planning what is to be produced and how it is to be distributed.

In official party and state rhetoric liberation meant both freedom from capitalism and militarism (and thus from fascism and imperialism, since the first two were presumed to lead by the logic of history to the second two) and freedom for socialism and communism (the one seen as a stage in the transition to the other).

While socialism as the state ownership of the means of production was discredited in the twentieth century, the egalitarianism of Rorty's utopia is maintained by fellow - feeling and a pervasive altruism.

If to all the enormous power that the state has anyway you add the power to run the economy, which is what socialism empirically means, the tendency toward creating some sort of totalitarianism becomes extremely strong.

More importantly, as alluded to before; what people often refer to when they speak of the rise of socialism / capitalism in the West, it's not the literal «State owns the means of production» issue.

In Bolivia, the election of Evo Morales as President in 2005 and the rise of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) gave political meaning to plurinationalism as an alternative model of state and citizenship, which was meant to overcome the neoliberal multicultural framework for diversity management.

By the word «socialism» most people mean the one enforced by state, which is of course violent, as laws of the state are mandatory, and enforced by violence.

Fabian socialism was the theory that the major means of production and allocation would be owned by the state which would be democratically elected and representative, and answerable at the polls.

If, based on a majority state ownership of the means of production, ie, the government or one of its agencies, some of these means of production are owned and operated by private entities, it also does not mean there is a mixed system combining socialism and capitalism.