State socialism
State socialism may refer to:[1]
- The lower stage of socialism, under which a core component is the dictatorship of the proletariat, a state controlled by the working class
- Socialist movements which seek to create a workers' state for facilitate socialist construction, e.g. Marxism–Leninism
- Staatssozialismus, the social programs and reforms implemented in the German Empire and other capitalist states to combat the rise of class consciousness among the workers
See also
References
- ↑ Interview Between J. Stalin and Roy Howard (1936).
"The term 'state socialism' is inexact.
Many people take this term to mean the system under which a certain part of wealth, sometimes a fairly considerable part, passes into the hands of the state, or under its control, while in the overwhelming majority of cases the works, factories and the land remain the property of private persons. This is what many people take 'state socialism' to mean. Sometimes this term covers a system under which the capitalist state, in order to prepare for, or wage war, runs a certain number of private enterprises at its own expense. The society which we have built cannot possibly be called 'state socialism.' Our Soviet society is socialist society, because the private ownership of the factories, works, the land, the banks and the transport system has been abolished and public ownership put in its place. The social organisation which we have created may be called a Soviet socialist organisation, not entirely completed, but fundamentally, a socialist organisation of society."