14 sentences with 'socialists'
Example sentences and phrases with the word socialists and other words derived from it.
• « In turn, in a nutshell, three of these ideologies had one thing in common: they opposed the fourth, conservatism. During the first half of the 19th century, socialists, nationalists and liberals agreed that the conservative order should be disrupted or even dismantled altogether, although they disagreed on how to achieve this and, more importantly, what should replace it. »
• « The term "socialism" itself is French. It was created in 1834 to contrast with individualism, a term favoured by liberals but seen by early socialists as a symptom of moral decadence. »
• « The abiding concern of the early socialists was to address what they saw as the moral and social disintegration of European civilisation in the modern era, as well as to repair the divisions and alleviate the suffering of workers in the midst of early industrial capitalism. »
• « A diverse group of liberals and socialists formed a provisional government, declared France a new republic and began to draw up plans for general elections for representatives of a new government. »
• « Should German liberals support free enterprise or a guaranteed "right to work", as demanded by German socialists? »
• « The first sign of this dissension came in France: socialists in the new French parliament (called the National Assembly, as in the first French republic half a century earlier) created new "National Workshops" in Paris that offered good wages to anyone who needed work. »
• « The Social Democratic Party of Germany itself represented a major shift in the identity of socialism after the revolutions of 1848. While early socialists rarely organised themselves into formal political parties - not least because most states in Europe before 1848 were not democracies of any kind - socialists in the post-1848 era became increasingly militant and organised. »
• « In September 1864, a congress of socialists from all over Europe and the United States met in London and founded the International Workingmen's Association - the "First International" - in order to better coordinate their efforts. »
• « Ironically, however, individual socialists could still stand for election and campaign for socialism. Bismarck's response was typically pragmatic: he supported social legislation, including workers' pensions, in an attempt to prevent socialists from attracting new members and becoming even more militant. »
• « While pre-war socialists had argued vociferously that the working class in each country was a single, united class, irrespective of national differences, that internationalist rhetoric largely faded once the war began. »
• « After the First World War, almost every government in Europe, including Germany, was a republican democracy based on the rule of law (liberalism). Even the socialists had reason to celebrate: there was a nominally Marxist state in Russia and socialist parties were powerful and militant throughout Europe. »
• « In 1931, the king abdicated after an anti-monarchist majority took over the Cortes. The result was a republic whose parliament was dominated by liberals and moderate socialists. »
• « In 1935, as right-wing forces rallied around a general named Francisco Franco, socialists, liberals, anarchists and communists formed a Popular Front to fight him. »
• « Instead, socialists tended to advocate a more diffuse and prosaic set of goals: workers' rights and protections, support for the independence of former colonies, and eventually sympathy and support for cultural issues around feminism and sexuality. »