global socialism

noun

socialism from / with a globalist approach

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supra-national socialismworldwide socialism

Meanings

nounglobal socialism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablesocialism from / with a globalist approach

    What is required rather is global socialism: We need societies in which what is produced is determined by need rather than by the profit calculations of individual business people

    1986, Global Problems and World Order, page 138
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    Y. Primakov, Director of the Institute for World Economy and International Relations, has written that 'international relations in general cannot be the arena in which the contest between global socialism and capitalism can be decided.'

    1989, The New Detente: Rethinking East-West Relations, page 189

    In his study of Saint-Simon, Durkheim fundamentally supported this normative feature of global socialism, but he thought internationally organized professional groups would be necessary to sponsor and carry these norms.

    1990, Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity, page 346

    Other critics agree that systemwide change is unlikely, but have tried to visualize the prospects for host country development without foreign capital, and prior to what they hope will be the advent of global socialism.

    1992, Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China, page 10

    developing new forms of economic analysis that take into account the international dynamics of capitalism, she projected a democratic and global socialism which is neither the state capitalism of Lenin nor reformist social democracy.

    1994, Philosophia: The Thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, and Hannah Arendt, page 18

    Mao's Marxism, finally, is a Chinese reflection upon global socialism, spoken in a vernacular voice by a Chinese subject who expressed through Marxism local, specifically Chinese, concerns.

    1996, Marxism Beyond Marxism, page 128

    Synonyms: supra-national socialism, worldwide socialism

Synonyms & antonyms

nounsocialism from / with a globalist approach

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supra-national socialismworldwide socialism
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