12 sentences with 'socialism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word socialism and other words derived from it.
• « Out of this context emerged socialism, the political belief that government should invest deeply in the welfare of ordinary people. »
• « Finally, the political, social and economic chaos of the late 19th century (including the Industrial Revolution) created the context from which socialism emerged. »
• « The third and last of the new ideologies and political movements of the early 19th century was socialism. »
• « From its inception, socialism was contrasted with individualism and egoism, of the selfish and self-centred pursuit of wealth and power. »
• « Of the new political movements considered in the last chapter of this book, only socialism failed to achieve its stated aims at least somewhere in Europe, becoming an increasingly militant movement opposing not only the conservatives, but also their former occasional allies: the liberals and the nationalists. »
• « Bismarck was so pragmatic that he ended up introducing social reforms to curb the growth of socialism, even though he was an arch-conservative (and therefore loathed the very idea of reform). »
• « They were inspired by the anarchist socialism of the exiled Mikhail Bakunin, whose vision of an apocalyptic revolutionary transformation referred directly to the social and political conditions in his native Russia. »
• « The term "cultural struggle" itself comes from Germany. After German unification, Otto von Bismarck led an officially declared cultural struggle - a Kulturkampf - against Roman Catholicism, and later, against socialism. The term lends itself, however, to a number of conflicts that took place in Europe (and America) at the turn of the century, the most important of which had to do with feminism and the legal and cultural status of European Jews. »
• « Most liberals also detested socialism, especially since the German socialist party, the SPD, emerged in the 1870s as one of the most powerful political parties. »
• « Bismarck represented the old Prussian Lutheran nobility, the Junkers, and hated not only socialism but also Catholicism. »
• « The most symptomatic moment of the defeat of socialism by nationalism as rival ideologies was the fact that 100% of the socialist parties in Europe supported their respective countries in the war, despite hard and fast pre-war promises that, as socialists, they were committed to peace. »
• « The form of radical politics that had taken root in Russia in the late 19th century revolved around apocalyptic revolutionary socialism. »