Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Noun: scientific socialism
  1. Socialism associated chiefly with Marxians and based principally upon a belief that historical forces (as economic determinism and the class struggle) determine usually by violent means the achievement of socialist goals.
    "Marx acknowledges the contribution to his own scientific socialism of the philosophy of Hegel, the economics of Ricardo and the utopian socialism of Fourier, St Simon, Owen and others."

Type of: socialism

Encyclopedia: Scientific socialism

Nearest

scienter
sciential
scientific
scientific agriculture
scientific discipline
scientific fact
scientific instrument
scientific knowledge
scientific method
scientific research
scientific socialism
scientific theory
scientifically
scientism
scientist
Scientologist
Scientology
sci-fi
scilicet
scilla
Scilla nonscripta