"State socialism" refers to a political and economic system where the government has significant control and ownership over resources, industries, and distribution of goods and services in a society. It aims to create an equal society by ensuring that wealth and resources are distributed among its citizens fairly.
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Some suggest that the international monetary system of western capitalism may suffer the same sudden collapse as
state socialism did in Russia and its satellite countries.
On the other hand, there are those who
espouse state socialism and a large measure of government ownership and control as the Christian answer.
Labour Party minister Peter Hain [219] has written in support of libertarian socialism, identifying an axis involving a «bottom - up vision of socialism, with anarchists at the revolutionary end and democratic socialists [such as himself] at its reformist end» as opposed to the axis of
state socialism with Marxist — Leninists at the revolutionary end and social democrats at the reformist end.
[143] She claimed at the Party Conference the following year that the British people had completely
rejected state socialism and understood:
Splitting his time between Paris and his native Cluj, Mircea Cantor makes work that centers around themes of cultural history, memory, and displacement, echoing his upbringing in Romania during its tumultuous transition
from state socialism to liberal democracy.
Before one million friends of liberty took to the streets of the nation's capital on September 12 shouting «NO» to government control of the nation's health care; «NO» to
nanny state socialism; and «NO» to an unending spiral of taxes, spending and debt.
Twenty years ago, when Hansen of GISS (Goddard Institute of Space Science) first resorted to duckspeak («warm is cold,» etc.), Michael Crighton noted: «Freeze or fry, the enemy is always free - market entrepreneurial capitalism, the solution is always
bureaucratic State socialism» — that is, wastrel Luddite modes consciously aiming to blast individualist bourgeois consumer culture at its very roots.
Instead of centrally
planned state socialism why not remove state shackles and let millions of individuals innovate and adapt to any changing climate?
At the time there was a general euphoria over the victory of capitalism over Marxism and
state socialism in Eastern Europe.
The alternative to the top - down development programs of both global capitalism and
state socialism is bottom - up development.
Supporters of present economic policies often speak as if the alternative to global capitalism is
state socialism, and they rightly point to its limitations.
This approach of balanced criticism of both liberal capitalism and
state socialism in their actual manifestations and practices may well inhibit decisive Christian action in some parts of Latin America, as Moltmann's critics imply.
The only choices have seemed to be corporate capitalism, on the one hand, or
state socialism, on the other.
One alternative I can think of is
state socialism, and speaking personally my objections to that are not philosophical but pragmatic.
I hope it's not
state socialism, but if not, what?
But some lawmakers were quick to call Cuomo's plan unaffordable and, in the words of Assemblyman Karl Brabenec, an Orange County Republican, «misguided, irresponsible and the kind of nanny -
state socialism that perpetuates New York's image as one the most expensive states in the nation in which to live and operate a business.»
This would be the biggest shift of generations since the 1945 General Election when Labour came in with a revolutionary programme of
state socialism and a large number of young MPs, some of whom were Second World War ex-servicemen.
Glasman believes that before Labour can move on it has to learn the lessons about the failures of
state socialism.
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What Cable's critics are too intellectually barren to acknowledge is that there are alternatives to the finance - dominated, Anglo - Saxon model beyond that of
state socialism.