socialist ideas
Wealth redistribution philosophy
Socialist ideas center on collective ownership or democratic control of economic resources, as opposed to private ownership concentrated among individuals.
The phrase typically refers to policies like wealth redistribution, public services, and worker protections: The candidate's socialist ideas include universal healthcare and free college.
In American political discourse, socialist ideas is often used loosely—sometimes as a neutral descriptor, sometimes as an accusation—for any expansion of government's economic role.
- collective ownershipJoint holding by many
- Marxist theoryFramework analyzing class conflict
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- anarcho-communismStateless collective ownership ideology
- Bolshevik Revolution1917 communist coup in Russia
syndicalism · general strike · equality · solidarity · planned economy · workers' councils · mutual aid · class consciousness · redistribution · wealth gap · living wage · participatory democracy · Marxism-Leninism · public goods · Cuban Revolution · red flag · labor rights · common good
- American SocialismBernie Sanders, Sanders, Emma Goldman, Goldman, Wobblies
- 1848 RevolutionFebruary Revolution, provisional government, abdication, barricades, universal suffrage
socialist ideascapitalism
Private profit-based economy
free enterprise · neoliberalism · supply-side economics · privatization · Reaganomics
socialist ideaslibertarianism
Minimal-government political philosophy
individualism · conservatism · right-wing ideology · classical liberalism · rugged individualism
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