socialism
n. பொதுநலக்கூட்டுத் தத்துவம், சமதருமம், உடைமைப் பொதுமைக் கோட்பாடு, பொதுநலனை முன்னிட்டுத் தனிப்பட்டவர்களின் உரிமையைக் கீழ்ப்படுத்த வேண்டுமென்னுங் கோட்பாடு.
So"cial*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. socialisme.] Defn: A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism. [Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy. Encyc. Brit. We certainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social existence for the mass of the workers. F. Harrison.