All 28 Uses of
socialism
in
The House of the Spirits
- He also stole away at night to the bar in San Lucas, where he met with certain union leaders who had a passion for fixing the world's troubles between sips of beer, or with the huge, magnificent Father Jose Dulce Maria, a Spanish priest with a head full of revolutionary ideas that had earned him the honor of being relegated by the Society of Jesus to that hidden corner of the world, although that didn't keep him from transforming biblical parables into Socialist propaganda.†
Chpt 4
- Clara was the only one to notice the change in her expression, since Esteban was absorbed in his usual monologue about the ingrates who bite the hand that feeds them, "all because of those goddam politicians like that new Socialist candidate, a real nincompoop who has the nerve to ride up and down the country in his shabby little train, stirring the people up with his Bolshevik ideas, he'd better keep away from here if he knows what's good for him because we'll make mincemeat of him,…†
Chpt 5
- He spoke of the workers of Europe and the United States, whose rights were respected because the slaughter of organizers and Socialists of the preceding decades had led to laws that were more just and republics that were governed properly, where the rulers did not steal powdered milk sent from abroad to the victims of disasters.†
Chpt 5
- Blanca reminded Pedro Tercero of the story of the Socialist leader who a few years earlier had bicycled across the province, distributing pamphlets on the haciendas and organizing the tenants until the Sanchez brothers caught him, beat him to death, and hanged him from a telephone pole at the intersection of two roads, where everyone could see him.†
Chpt 5
- Still, despite the evidence, the law would not intervene, and the death of the Socialist was quickly forgotten.†
Chpt 5
- When he heard other people humming the song about the hens and fox, he would smile at the thought that his son had made more converts with his subversive ballads than with the Socialist Party pamphlets he so tirelessly distributed.†
Chpt 5
- They talked of justice, of equality, of the peasant movement and of Socialism, while Blanca listened with impatience, wishing they would hurry up and finish their discussion so she could be alone with her lover.†
Chpt 6
- "If the patron finds out we're voting Socialist, we're done for," they said.†
Chpt 6
- Therefore, when a train came through carrying the new candidate of the Socialist Party, a charismatic, nearsighted doctor who could move huge crowds with his passionate speeches, they watched him from the station, observed in turn by the owners, who formed a fence around them, armed with shotguns and clubs.†
Chpt 6
- "The Socialists are going to win," Jaime had said.†
Chpt 7 *
- He had also given him the address of a Socialist leader, who took him in and gave him a place to sleep his first few nights in the city and then found him a job singing folk songs in a bohemian cafe.†
Chpt 7
- From there he preached Socialism and mulled over his disgust at Blanca's having married someone else, refusing to accept Jaime's explanations and consolation.†
Chpt 7
- But he no longer tried to drag him to the hospital to make him look at suffering up close, hoping aginst hope that the pain of others might move his bird-ofpassage heart, and he had stopped inviting him to the Socialist meetings at Pedro Tercero Garcia's house, on the last street of the working-class district, where they all gathered every Thursday under the eye of the police.†
Chpt 7
- On Thursday night he forgot his Socialist meeting.†
Chpt 7
- Trueba remained relatively silent until his bad temper betrayed him and he began to argue with Jaime about the poor, the elections, the Socialists, and basic principles, or to insult Nicolas for his attempts to launch a balloon and practice acupuncture on Alba, or to punish Blanca with his harsh replies, his indifference, and his useless warnings that she had already ruined her life and that she would never inherit so much as a peso from him.†
Chpt 9
- No. Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees.†
Chpt 10
- But cut out your Socialist nonsense!†
Chpt 10
- There are Socialists, radicals, and lots of other splinter groups.†
Chpt 10
- Jaime was convinced that after so many years of struggle the Socialists were finally going to win.†
Chpt 11
- They'll never let your Socialists win!†
Chpt 11
- One night at dinner, Jaime announced that the Socialists were going to win, but since he had been saying that for twenty years, no one believed him.†
Chpt 11
- He was the same Socialist who had had his eye on the Presidency for the past eighteen years.†
Chpt 11
- It was the era when the Sanchez brothers had hanged the Socialist leader at the crossroads and when Esteban Trueba had whipped Pedro Tercero Garcia in front of his father for spreading Father Jose Duke Maria's strange interpretations of the Bible among the tenants.†
Chpt 11
- They discussed Socialism and chess, and it was the beginning of a strong friendship.†
Chpt 11
- Jaime replied that even if they told everyone, no one would believe it—not even the Socialists themselves— and as proof he told his father.†
Chpt 11
- The Conspiracy Just as the Candidate had predicted, the Socialists, in alliance with the other parties of the left, won the Presidential election.†
Chpt 12
- Organization was necessary, because the "road to Socialism" quickly became a battlefield.†
Chpt 12
- He thought of the peasant who had shared his daughter's love for half a century and was unable to find a single reason for detesting him, not even his poncho, his Socialist beard, his tenacity, or his damned fox-chasing hens.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
-
(socialism) an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people