/'səʊʃəlɪzəm; `soʃəl,ɪzəm/ n [U]
(a) political and economic theory advocating that a country's land, transport, natural resources and chief industries should be owned and controlled by the whole community or by the State, and that wealth should be equally distributed 社会主义.
(b) policy or practice based on this theory 社会主义的方针、政策或实践
*the struggle to build socialism建设社会主义的斗争
* combine the best features of socialism and capitalism 将社会主义和资本主义最优秀的特点结合起来. Cf 参看 capitalism.

n[U]
an economic and political system in which large industries are owned by the government, and taxes are used to take some wealth away from richer citizens and give it to poorer citizens
→capitalism, communism communism