state socialism
noun
the theory, doctrine, and movement advocating a planned economy controlled by the state, with state ownership of all industries and natural resources.
Origin of state socialism
First recorded in 1875–80
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Example sentences from the Web for state socialism
Christianity, he says, must remain independent of State-Socialism, as of other organisations of society.
Outspoken Essays |William Ralph IngeFor this reason militarism and state-socialism might at any time come to terms.
Outspoken Essays |William Ralph IngeHis ministry had, however, passed one important measure which individualists regarded as an act of state-socialism.
British Dictionary definitions for state socialism
state socialism
noun
a variant of socialism in which the power of the state is employed for the purpose of creating an egalitarian society by means of public control of major industries, banks, etc, coupled with economic planning and a social security system