Socialism
* advocates a larger, more intrusive style of government than does capitalism
  - larger role of government than does capitalism
* aims at subordinating all production to human reason.
* allows for laziness and economic complacency as evidenced by the collapse of communism.
* also continues to exist in many countries
  - holds that all resources are owned by the state, and again no state exists
* can be evolutionary or revolutionary
  - come about democratically or by revolution
  - end both the exploitation of labor and the exploitation of nature
  - mean only democratization of society
* claims to serve people as workers, as producers of goods and services.
* concept that is based upon the understanding of socioeconomic formations.
* considers itself to be the most scientific ideology ever.
* continues to deprive the Israeli people of economic freedom
  - shrink the nation, while depriving the people of freedom
* creates a centrally planned economy
  - more equality, but it takes away some work incentives
* dead ideology.
* describes a society in which people work together to increase the benefit of all.
* developing, growing system.
* emphasizes community with child rearing as a community responsibility
  - children and child rearing as a community responsibility
* euphemism for capitalism in China.
* exists wherever the workers themselves directly manage the entire society.
* fails to recognize the human right to own property.
* has social production and social appropriation
  - socialist or social ownership of the basic means of production
  - some benefits, at least to the lower levels of society
* implies some central authority sitting in the middle with guns.
* is about making decisions with the aim of promoting the good of everyone.
* is an economic and governmental system where the workers own and run companies
  - system marked by government control of industry
  - expansion of democracy by the working class
  - insidious, contagious and degenerating cultural disease
* is based on the people's
  - upon the redistribution of wealth from the productive to the parasitical
  - communism with movie stars
  - discredited because only a free market economy can give a secure basis for democracy
  - economic democracy
  - entirely about greed
  - inevitable because it has real solutions to the problems of capitalism
  - inherently totalitarian in philosophy
  - made of socialists
  - necessary to end the ecological destruction caused by capitalism
  - no religion
* is one of the most insidious evils ever devised by man
  - type of collectivism
  - only possible as the result of direct action by the working class
  - placed in between capitalism and communism
  - political ideology
  - presented as perfection, while all other philosophies are flawed
  - seductive in theory, but tends toward tyranny and serfdom in practice
* is the answer to the wars, anarchy and crises of capitalism
  - best form of government for Kenya
  - economical consequence, and a subset, of statism
  - equal distribution of poverty
  - essential first step to eliminate the middle class property and business owners
  - future
  - institutionalization of the free rider problem
  - intermediate transition from capitalism to communism
  - next and necessary stage of human development
  - only way to end the horror of pollution and ecological destruction
  - people's control over the means of production
  - rejection of capitalism
  - renunciation of rational economy
  - system of economics least likely to survive a war
  - theory of evolution applied to politics and government
  - tyranny of the most dumb of society
  - ultimate exploitative monopoly
  - use of government force to achieve a given political and social end
  - to replace the collapsed capitalism
* is when man exploits man, capitalism is the reverse
  - wrong because it externally forces humankind to work together
* lays the basis for the conscious planning of human affairs, i.e. communism.
* means a classless society
  - more equal distribution of wealth among the people
  - society restructured according to the working-class principle of solidarity
  - wageless, moneyless society
  - common ownership of the means of production and distribution
  - complete control of their tools and products by the workers
  - democracy at all levels of society, including the workplace
  - far more individual liberty than workers can possibly have under capitalism
  - free access to the goods produced by society
  - keeping account of everything
  - more than just equality between ethnic majorities and ethnic minorities
  - police states and clapped out economies
  - public control of government and economics
  - the end of class divisions, social inequality and the insatiable drive for profits
  - voluntary labour
* persists, because some central authority is free to end dissention with a noose.
* perverts the law, making it an instrument of legalized plunder.
* practical organizational model of human community.
* presupposes a dictatorship of the proletariat.
* produces a huge shift in wealth followed by stagnation
* regressive form of government.
* rejects minority and majority
  - the notions of private property and the free market
* requires a population dependent on the government
  - state to act as the agent of resource distribution
  - sacrifice, which is the antithesis of an individual's cult of individualism
* response to poverty, and the belief it can be eradicated.
* says the state owns the property and people just use it.
* science of considerable dimensions.
* seeks governmental ownership of all property
  - to pull down wealth
* series of steps.
* society without commodities and without classes.
* stage on the way to communism.
* stands to communalism as capitalism stands to slavery.
* stresses universal coverage for all people.
* strives to bring the best out of human nature.
* system which is defined by governmental ownership of property.
* takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.
* tyrannical form.
* wishes to establish collective property relations in the major sectors of the economy.
+ Socialism, Overview: Forms of government :: Political movements
  * Socialism is an economic and governmental system where the workers own and run companies. Its goal is to have the industries make money which can be used for the benefit of everyone. It wants to give workers control over their workplaces.
+ Socialist country: Forms of government
  * A 'Socialist country' is a country where the government or the public as a whole has control over the economy. In a socialist country, the producing and dispersing of goods is owned by the government. Socialism is placed in between capitalism and communism.