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Definition
an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies — with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- "You see, Amory, we're Marxian Socialists," explained Kerry.1.2 — Spires and Gargoyles (74% in)
- Economics had interested him and he was turning socialist.1.4 — Narcissus Off Duty (9% in)
- The socialist magazines, a great smattering of Tolstoi, and his own intense longing for a cause that would bring out whatever strength lay in him, had finally decided him to preach peace as a subjective ideal.1.4 — Narcissus Off Duty (68% in)
- "But," continued Amory disregarding him, "being very poor at present I am contemplating socialism as possibly my forte."2.5 — The Egotist Becomes a Personage (52% in)
- That's what I think of Socialists."2.5 — The Egotist Becomes a Personage (53% in)
- Socialism may not be progress, but the threat of the red flag is certainly the inspiring force of all reform.2.5 — The Egotist Becomes a Personage (72% in)
- If he can be educated to think clearly, concisely, and logically, freed of his habit of taking refuge in platitudes and prejudices and sentimentalisms, then I'm a militant Socialist.2.5 — The Egotist Becomes a Personage (80% in)
- "This is the first time in my life I've argued Socialism.2.5 — The Egotist Becomes a Personage (81% in)
- "But you don't believe all this Socialist patter you talk."2.5 — The Egotist Becomes a Personage (83% in)
There are no more uses of "socialism" in This Side of Paradise.
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