scientific socialism

British  

noun

1. Marxist socialism Compare utopian socialism

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Example Sentences

He wrote a thesis on “scientific socialism” — a euphemism for communism.

From Washington Times

Barre may have espoused a doctrine of “scientific socialism”, a fusion of terrible governance ideas imported from China, North Korea and Nasserite Egypt, but he was not above ethnic nationalism, privileging his own Darod clan, which added to the resentment of the northern Isaaqs.

From The Guardian

“On the contrary, it was their deviation from Marxism and scientific socialism that led to their failure.”

From New York Times

“The failure of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was not the failure of scientific socialism,” Jiang Hui, a Marxist scholar in Beijing, said on the show.

From New York Times

The theory of scientific socialism, on which Soviet society was supposedly built, predicted that communism would conquer the earth.

From Slate