Socialism (disambiguation)

Note that words socialism and communism might be used in different way in english and non english speaking countries, since Protestant England preferred the word socialism rather than the word communism close to the Roman Catholic communion word.

Socialism may refer to:

Politics/State

• socialist republic, known as "Communist states" in the West, are those countries themselves referred to as socialist republics. They are defined by a form of government with a one-party system. It is different from a country where a socialist party win an election.

Actual politics/party in Europe

When many political party have the name Socialist Party in their name, in Europe, depending of the country and language, socialist party refers to rather different or opposite party: in the far left, the communists, in the center left, the social-democrat.

• For instance, socialist Party of Latvia is member of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (communist) which want to break with "neo-liberal monetarist policies"
• Christian socialism such as the Christian Socialist Movement (CSM), affiliated to the British Labour Party. member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (abbreviation S&D) is the social-democratic group of the European Parliament. Until the 1999 election it was the largest group. It is currently (2011) the second-largest. It is implicated in euro creation, deregulation and accepted current monetarist policies.

History

• History of socialism an article covering socialism from an historian point of view.

National/ethnocentric socialism

• National-socialism or Nazism, far right ideology and practice that involved biological racism and antisemitism. In conflict with both socialist and communist both at internal and global level.
• Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (also spelled Ba'th or Baath' which means "resurrection or renaissance"; Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي) is a secularist Arab nationalism/Pan-Arabism political party that synthesizes international socialist and National Socialist ideologies.

Economics

• Socialist planned economy such as Soviet-style command economy
• The socialist market economy is the official term used to refer to the economic system of the People's Republic of China after the reforms of Deng Xiaoping. It consists of a mixture of socialist planning with a market economy.
• Market socialism refers to various economic systems where the means of production are publicly owned, managed, and administered and the market is utilized to distribute resources and economic output. Market socialism generally refers to two related but distinct systems.
• Market socialism might refer to Mutualism, an anarchist school of thought who envisioned a society where each person might possess a means of production, either individually or collectively.
• Social market economy is the main economic model used in West Germany after World War II.

Political philosophy

• Social democracy: Modern social democracy has abandoned socialism as its goal by rejecting state ownership or direct worker ownership of the means of production and a reorganization of the economy, and instead advocates a welfare state, regulated capitalism and some public ownership of supporting industries. While it is still considered a socialist political movement, modern social democracy advocates capitalist economic systems such as the social market economy, Third-way mixed economies and relies on Keynesian economics.
• Social Liberalism is the belief that liberalism should include social justice. It recognizes a legitimate role for the state in addressing economic and social issues such as unemployment, health care, and education while simultaneously expanding civil rights.

• socialism, This article try to synthesis socialism as both an economic system and a political philosophy, with its different branches inside a country, on the different continents, and in different epochs of history from its birth in the Industrial Revolution to nowadays.

Books

• Whither Socialism? is a book on economics by Joseph Stiglitz, first published in 1994 by MIT Press.

Sources

• All information present in this article has been collected within english wikipedia.