All 13 Uses
socialism
in
Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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- If asked, Yetta would have said she was a socialist rather than a Jew.†
p. 32.6socialist = 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
- It was a cold night, but they were both in high spirits because they'd just come from a lecture by a famous socialist.†
p. 58.9
- Yetta waited for Rahel to correct her, to say they weren't Jewish anymore, they were socialists, unionists, revolutionaries.†
p. 62.9 *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
- They weren't even thoughts that fit with her old socialist fervor.†
p. 90.9socialist = 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
- She said this as though she knew all about the newspapers in New York City, how impressive it was to be noticed by a newspaper that rich people read, instead of just newspapers printed in Yiddish or newspapers read only by socialists.†
p. 104.3socialists = 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
- These were important men, famous men, Yetta knew that: Meyer Landon, the socialist lawyer; Abraham Cahan, editor of the Forward, Benjamin Feigenbaum, a union leader ...And the most impressive speaker of all, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor.†
p. 106.4socialist = 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
- Mr. Feigenbaum was at the podium now, introducing the next speaker, another socialist, Jacob Panken.†
p. 108.4
- Maybe it was because Yetta heard so many of the rich people grumbling as they left: "A little too radical for my tastes, frankly," and "Isn't it appalling, how those socialists are deluding those poor little girls?"†
p. 180.6socialists = 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
- The society women are arguing with the socialists, the union leaders want to be done with us so they can get started with the cloakmakers' strike—†
p. 183.1
- You have fallen in with a dangerous, socialist crowd.†
p. 194.2socialist = 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
- "I have not fallen in with a dangerous, socialist crowd," she said.†
p. 195.1
- That's what the socialists want.†
p. 197.5socialists = 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
- Then, to prove that socialist, suffragist immigrants could also have manners, she added, "Jane's told us a lot about you."†
p. 248.4socialist = 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
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)