All 9 Uses
socialism
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)
- He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form—'English Socialism', that is to say — it had been current earlier.
p. 36.4socialism = an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- Socialism, a theory which appeared in the early nineteenth century and was the last link in a chain of thought stretching back to the slave rebellions of antiquity, was still deeply infected by the Utopianism of past ages.
p. 203.2
- 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.
p. 203.3 *
- It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow: and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated.
p. 206.8
- Ingsoc, which grew out of the earlier Socialist movement and inherited its phraseology, has in fact carried out the main item in the Socialist programme; with the result, foreseen and intended beforehand, that economic inequality has been made permanent.
p. 206.9socialist = of an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- Ingsoc, which grew out of the earlier Socialist movement and inherited its phraseology, has in fact carried out the main item in the Socialist programme; with the result, foreseen and intended beforehand, that economic inequality has been made permanent.
p. 206.9
- The older kind of Socialist, who had been trained to fight against something called 'class privilege' assumed that what is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
p. 209.8socialist = a person who wants an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism.
p. 216.3socialist = of an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism.
p. 216.4socialism = of an economic system based on government ownership and control of all companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
Definitions:
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(1)
(socialism) an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)