All 6 Uses of
socialism
in
The Idiot
- He tried to tempt her in various ways to lose her heart; he invited princes, hussars, secretaries of embassies, poets, novelists, even Socialists, to see her; but not one of them all made the faintest impression upon Nastasia.†
Chpt 1.4 *socialists = people who want an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- But we were not speaking of literature; we began by discussing the socialists.†
Chpt 3.1
- Very well then, I insist that there does not exist one single Russian socialist.†
Chpt 3.1socialist = 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
- There does not, and there has never existed such a one, because all socialists are derived from the two classes—the landed proprietors, and the seminarists.†
Chpt 3.1socialists = people who want an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- All our eminent socialists are merely old liberals of the class of landed proprietors, men who were liberals in the days of serfdom.†
Chpt 3.1
- Why, Socialism is the progeny of Romanism and of the Romanistic spirit.†
Chpt 4.7
Definition:
an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people