I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a capitalist/socialist economy (= based on a capitalist or socialist political system )
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the large capitalist economies of western Europe
a communist/socialist state
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The former communist states began opening up their markets to foreign investment.
a democratic/socialist/communist experiment (= one in which a country tries a new political system )
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He went to Havana to judge for himself the success or failure of the socialist experiment.
socialist principles
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Would he stick to his socialist principles after being elected Prime Minister?
socialist/democratic/liberal ideals
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He is committed to democratic ideals such as majority rule.
the Conservative/Liberal Democrat/Socialist etc leader (= leader of a political party )
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the Conservative leader, David Cameron
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
country
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Political report: The socialist countries faced a profound crisis, both theoretically and practically.
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In the 1980s Amnesty International reports listed several Arab socialist countries as sites of torture and killing.
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It would be quite wrong in thinking about the economics of socialist countries to focus exclusively on inefficiency.
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A different conception of collective bargaining in terms both of its character and role is applicable in socialist countries with centrally-planned economies.
culture
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In this hostile ideological jungle, little clearings of socialist culture had to be created painfully.
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A wide variety of cultural trends would coexist, and a socialist culture and personality would develop.
economy
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It focuses on non-price causes of shortage reproduction in the socialist economy .
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An inefficient socialist economy and thirty years of increasingly corrupt one-party rule have made their contributions.
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The government is only cautiously expanding the limited free-market alterations of its socialist economy begun four years ago.
government
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But is it a socialist government ?
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But what socialist governments , in which countries, had ever worked?
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The socialist government feared a loss of government to the C.N.T. unless they held out a revolutionary future to the social masses.
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President Alan Garcia's socialist government that took office in July 1985 has taken a tolerant view of the informal sector.
idea
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Catering for more than 100,000 students a year, the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas .
ideal
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Is it realising the socialist ideals that we stood for?
leader
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And it was those of liberal and moderate socialist leaders , men like Miliukov and Kerensky, which exerted greatest influence.
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And it was from their number that the most prominent socialist leaders of 1917 were drawn.
movement
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It took the rise of the socialist movement to turn the tide.
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After the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 her commitment to the international socialist movement intensified.
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Such incidents were symptomatic of tensions within the socialist movement that were to have long-term consequences.
party
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His proposal that a new socialist party should rise from the ashes of the present one was hardly disputed.
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Hashimoto finally settled on Wataru Kubo of the steadily disintegrating socialist party .
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Such behaviour is not suited to a democratic socialist party of the 1990s.
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Even if workers could solve their collective action problems and unite behind a socialist party , their electoral muscle would be insufficient.
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A socialist party supports government provision; a big business party opposes taxation.
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The socialist parties played a peripheral role in the revolution of 1905.
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The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies, the worse they have suffered.
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De Rossa said that his breakaway group would form a new democratic socialist party .
policy
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If you want to campaign for socialist policies against this government, join the Labour party.
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The Left-wing of the party continued to fight for the adoption of socialist policies .
principle
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The chairman's tact prevented the nearly explicit discussion of socialist principle from becoming more so.
regime
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Increasingly, the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime .
revolution
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The Second International also insisted that the first socialist revolution in a major country would quickly find imitators elsewhere.
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Thus democracy is not a regime that remains self-sufficient for decades but is only a direct prelude to the socialist revolution .
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The construction of the party was an essential condition for the victory of the socialist revolution .
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They believe that if socialist revolution has not arrived today, it will come tomorrow.
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Britain in the throes of a socialist revolution ?
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More radical sections of the educated élite looked beyond liberal and constitutional reform to socialist revolution .
society
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In any socialist society , competition is absent and, because it is absent, services are usually non-existent.
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The three largest unions are refusing to vote for his compromise which would let whites belong to a black socialist society .
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In a socialist society , it was asked, were such gross disparities and inequalities permissible?
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Unlike affiliated unions or socialist societies they had no collective voice but were regarded as subsidiary units.
state
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The socialist state nationalised film and gave film-makers much better potential opportunities.
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While the policies in a socialist state attempt to reduce inequalities significantly, they do not aim for total economic equality.
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They intend to build a socialist state , and the revolution which they have begun is irreversible.
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The only form of constitutional arrangements which socialist states took seriously after 1917 were formulas for national federation and autonomy.
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A socialist state was proclaimed one year later.
system
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We provided a socialist system of education.
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The socialist system was my hope.
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Many students had strayed from the socialist path and needed to be reminded of the superiority of the socialist system .
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It is at the heart such a socialist system .
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They would disembark merrily with renewed faith in the Soviet socialist system , although having no real knowledge of it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A wide variety of cultural trends would coexist, and a socialist culture and personality would develop.
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His proposal that a new socialist party should rise from the ashes of the present one was hardly disputed.
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Increasingly, the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime.
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It seemed a strange place for a red-bearded revolutionary socialist to live.
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It would be quite wrong in thinking about the economics of socialist countries to focus exclusively on inefficiency.
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On the other is a toppled colossus painfully constructing a market economy out of the wreckage of a socialist one.
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The Second International also insisted that the first socialist revolution in a major country would quickly find imitators elsewhere.
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Whether a capitalist or socialist approach to development is adopted, it must be development with a human face.
II. noun
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Even the devout socialists of Alcove 1 believed in the free market of abilities.
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He lived in poverty and became a socialist .
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Increasingly, the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime.
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The plans are opposed by most political parties, with the exception of the ruling socialists.
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Throughout the country the progressive spirit had elected more than five hundred socialists to various public offices in 1910 and 1911.