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socialism

[soh-shuh-liz-uhm] / ˈsoʊ ʃəˌlɪz əm /


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For decades, the island was celebrated by U.S. critics worldwide as a scrappy symbol of anti-imperialism and a utopic experiment in socialism.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Ideologies also flourished, including socialism, communism, Zionism and, among a growing number of non-Jewish townspeople, Nazism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

This is where I should stop and define what democratic socialism is, as it’s been at the center of much of the misinformation about Mamdani.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2026

With Clement Atlee's landslide election victory in July 1945, for the first time in Britain's political history a majority cast their votes for a party ostensibly dedicated to socialism.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025

Hermann Muller—disappointed by another false utopia—left Berlin for the Soviet Union, on yet another quest to unite science and socialism.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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