socialism

in a sentence

He found himself torn between the two extremes, secularism and socialism on one side and militant Islam on the other.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

But having settled in Italy, he was lured back to Russia by Stalin in '34 and set up in Ryabushinsky's mansion—so that he could preside over the establishment of Socialist Realism as the sole artistic style of the entire Russian people....  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

I speak here of literature whose primary intent is to influence the body politic—for instance, those works of socialist realism (one of the great misnomers of all time) of the Soviet era ... —what I once heard the great Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes characterize as the love affair between a boy, and girl, and a tractor.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

This is a grand opportunity for our comrades to profit from the experiences of a young socialist system.  (source) John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, 1963

But in each variant of Socialism that appeared from about 1900 onwards the aim of establishing liberty and equality was more and more openly abandoned.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

New York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the socialists!  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 1922

The offensive line never abandoned, at least in public, its old, vaguely socialistic ideology.†  (source) Michael Lewis, The Blind Side, 2006

In fact, I am a bit of a Socialist myself.  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Man And Superman, 1903

From this book, you obtained intellectual weapons that could be used to attack socialism.†  (source) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, 2008

It's the Socialists' paradox: Give its laboring forces responsibility but no individual authority.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum, 1990

Even though you had this beautiful relationship in this room, please explain to me and the members of this court why Mr. Pignetti just didn't tell you that he needed a couple of gallons worth of gas and was going down to take them from your car, which, of course, as we all know by now, in this beautiful and socialistic room, was also his car.†  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

About the National Socialist Schoolchildren's League?†  (source) Mina Baites, The Silver Music Box, 2017

Any inclination towards the soft socialism of Mr. Roosevelt should be resisted, as such efforts could only further sicken the ailing economy.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000