Socialism
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Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the "community."
The modern socialist movement had its origin largely in the working class movement of the late-19th century. In this period, the term "socialism" was first used in connection with European social critics who criticized capitalism and private property. For Karl Marx, who helped establish and define the modern socialist movement, socialism implied the abolition of money, markets, capital, and labor as a commodity.
See also
- Collective farming
- Dictatorship of the proletariat
- History of socialism in Great Britain
- History of the socialist movement in the United States
- List of communist ideologies
- List of socialist countries
- List of socialist economists
- List of socialist songs
- Luxemburgism
- Nanosocialism
- Proletarian revolution
- Social democracy
- Socialism and social democracy in Canada
- Socialization of production
- Third World Socialism
- Tragedy of the commons
- List of far-left parties with parliamentary representation
- Workers' self-management
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