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state socialism

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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant of socialism in which the power of the state is employed for the purpose of creating an egalitarian society by means of public control of major industries, banks, etc, coupled with economic planning and a social security system
state socialist n
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Noun1.state socialism - an economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed
economic system, economy - the system of production and distribution and consumption
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, state socialism on the Eastern Bloc model had been discredited.
Focusing especially on how everyday life in industrial millieux came to be transformed after 1945, he shows how the social consequences of the Second World War were absorbed in the transition to state socialism. (Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)
The birth of a new direction in American studies--the emergence of the New Americanists and their critique of US state power in domestic and international contexts--occurred not only in response to developments in race, ethnic, gender, and postcolonial studies but at practically the same moment as the demise of European state socialism in the early 1990s.
But before such reforms can be untaken meaningfully, it is important to understand what exactly is being targeted in this reform.To put it more precisely, it was a kind of state socialism that was practiced in Pakistan, and the broad brush usage of the term, socialism, is incorrect.
But there is no reason to think that American millennials who favor "socialism" are thinking of Soviet-style state socialism, as opposed to, say, Scandinavian social democracy.
The 1980s, when two-thirds of the globe stagnated under state socialism, repression and isolation?
Postsocialist women joined the global trend in the 1990s following the collapse of state socialism in Eurasia.
The problem is state socialism doesn't work, never has and never will, and if history was taught in schools again by unbiased professionals, instead of being hijacked by selective left wing do gooders, there would be no need to peddle these myths.
Women's economic status has been particularly important to activists in the CEE countries, since women were hurt so dramatically by the transition from state socialism to capitalist democracies" (Hassenstab, Ramet, & Hassenstab, 2015, 74).
"Yet neither an intensification of neoliberalism, nor the resurrection of British state socialism will provide the solutions that are needed to solve our economic challenges and turn Wales around.
"More crying faults had existed in the financial department at an earlier period, but since then changes had taken place, both in government and in society, which made them more keenly felt than before." Similarly, the Iranian economy has always been a dysfunctional mess -- a toxic mixture of autarky, state socialism and corruption.

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