All 44 Uses of
socialism
in
The Communist Manifesto
- SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE 1.†
socialist = 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
- REACTIONARY SOCIALISM A. Feudal Socialism Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society.†
- REACTIONARY SOCIALISM A. Feudal Socialism Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society.†
- In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history.†
- As the parson has ever gone hand in hand with the landlord, so has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism.†
- As the parson has ever gone hand in hand with the landlord, so has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism.†
- Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.†
socialist = 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
- Christian Socialism is but the holy, water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.†
- B. Petty-Bourgeois Socialism The feudal aristocracy was not the only class that was ruined by the bourgeoisie, not the only class whose conditions of existence pined and perished in the atmosphere of modern bourgeois society.†
- Thus arose petty-bourgeois Socialism.†
- This school of Socialism dissected with great acuteness the contradictions in the conditions of modern production.†
- In its positive aims, however, this form of Socialism aspires either to restoring the old means of production and of exchange, and with them the old property relations, and the old society, or to cramping the modern means of production and of exchange, within the framework of the old property relations that have been, and were bound to be, exploded by those means.†
- Ultimately, when stubborn historical facts had dispersed all intoxicating effects of self-deception, this form of Socialism ended in a miserable fit of the blues.†
- C. German, or "True," Socialism The Socialist and Communist literature of France, a literature that originated under the pressure of a bourgeoisie in power, and that was the expression of the struggle against this power, was introduced into Germany at a time when the bourgeoisie, in that country, had just begun its contest with feudal absolutism.†
- C. German, or "True," Socialism The Socialist and Communist literature of France, a literature that originated under the pressure of a bourgeoisie in power, and that was the expression of the struggle against this power, was introduced into Germany at a time when the bourgeoisie, in that country, had just begun its contest with feudal absolutism.†
socialist = 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
- True Socialism,†
- German Science of Socialism,†
- "Philosophical Foundation of Socialism," and so on.†
- The French Socialist and Communist literature was thus completely emasculated.†
socialist = 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
- This German Socialism, which took its schoolboy task so seriously and solemnly, and extolled its poor stock-in-trade in such mountebank fashion, meanwhile gradually lost its pedantic innocence.†
- By this, the long wished-for opportunity was offered to "True" Socialism of confronting the political movement with the Socialist demands, of hurling the traditional anathemas against liberalism, against representative government, against bourgeois competition, bourgeois freedom of the press, bourgeois legislation, bourgeois liberty and equality, and of preaching to the masses that they had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by this bourgeois movement.†
- By this, the long wished-for opportunity was offered to "True" Socialism of confronting the political movement with the Socialist demands, of hurling the traditional anathemas against liberalism, against representative government, against bourgeois competition, bourgeois freedom of the press, bourgeois legislation, bourgeois liberty and equality, and of preaching to the masses that they had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by this bourgeois movement.†
socialist = 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
- German Socialism forgot, in the nick of time, that the French criticism, whose silly echo it was, presupposed the existence of modern bourgeois society, with its corresponding economic conditions of existence, and the political constitution adapted thereto, the very things whose attainment was the object of the pending struggle in Germany.†
- While this "True" Socialism thus served the governments as a weapon for fighting the German bourgeoisie, it, at the same time, directly represented a reactionary interest, the interest of the German Philistines.†
- "True" Socialism appeared to kill these two birds with one stone.†
- The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry "eternal truths," all skin and bone, served to wonderfully increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public.†
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
- And on its part, German Socialism recognised, more and more, its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty-bourgeois Philistine.†
- To every villainous meanness of this model man it gave a hidden, higher, Socialistic interpretation, the exact contrary of its real character.†
*socialistic = related to an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- With very few exceptions, all the so-called Socialist and Communist publications that now (1847) circulate in Germany belong to the domain of this foul and enervating literature.†
socialist = 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
- CONSERVATIVE, OR BOURGEOIS, SOCIALISM A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society.†
- This form of Socialism has, moreover, been worked out into complete systems.†
- The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom.†
socialistic = related to an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people
- The bourgeoisie naturally conceives the world in which it is supreme to be the best; and bourgeois Socialism develops this comfortable conception into various more or less complete systems.†
- A second and more practical, but less systematic, form of this Socialism sought to depreciate every revolutionary movement in the eyes of the working class, by showing that no mere political reform, but only a change in the material conditions of existence, in economic relations, could be of any advantage to them.†
- By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government.†
- Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.†
- This is the last word and the only seriously meant word of bourgeois Socialism.†
- CRITICAL-UTOPIAN SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM We do not here refer to that literature which, in every great modern revolution, has always given voice to the demands of the proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf and others.†
- The Socialist and Communist systems properly so called, those of Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period, described above, of the struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie (see Section 1.†
socialist = 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
- The undeveloped state of the class struggle, as well as their own surroundings, causes Socialists of this kind to consider themselves far superior to all class antagonisms.†
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 these Socialist and Communist publications contain also a critical element.†
socialist = 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
- The significance of Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism bears an inverse relation to historical development.†
- By degrees they sink into the category of the reactionary conservative Socialists depicted above, differing from these only by more systematic pedantry, and by their fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous effects of their social science.†
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
- In Switzerland they support the Radicals, without losing sight of the fact that this party consists of antagonistic elements, partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of radical bourgeois.†
Definition:
an economic system based on government ownership or control of all important companies -- with the ideal of equal benefits to all people