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Sosialisme merupakan teori atau sistem organisasi sosial dan ekonomi di mana salah satu ciri utamanya adalah hasil kekayaan negara serta alat dan pengurusan mengerjakan sumber kekayaan dinikmati bersama oleh seluruh rakyat secara sama rata[10][11] baik melalui kepemilikan negara, kolektif, koperasi, atau penuntutan semula wang pelaburan.[12] Fahaman ini tiada tafsiran tunggal utama yang mampu memenuhi semua intipatinya,[13] dengan kepemilikan sosial menjadi unsur umum yang dimiliki berbagai variannya.[5][14][15] Namun, sosialisme umumnya difahamkan bertujuan membela masyarakat daripada dipergunakan tenaganya secara tidak adil[16] dan menggalakkan kemajuan diri sesama anggotanya.[17]
Parti-parti berfahaman sosialis boleh bersatu tenaga dengan kesatuan/serikat pekerja, pada waktu lain mandiri dan kritis terhadap serikat; serta ada di negara terindustrialisasi atau berkembang.[18] Parti dan gagasan sosialis tetap menjadi kekuatan politik dengan berbagai-bagai tingkat kekuatan dan pengaruh di semua benua, serta memimpin pemerintahan nasional di banyak negara di dunia. Saat ini, beberapa jurusan sosialisme juga mengambil guna prinsip dari gerakan sosial lain, seperti kecintalaman, feminisme dan progresivisme.[19] Fahaman demokrasi sosial sendirinya berkembang lanjut dari ideologi sosialisme yang telah merangkul ekonomi campuran dengan pasar yang mencakup intervensi negara yang substantif dalam bentuk pengagihan semula pendapatan, pengaturan, dan dasar-dasar kebajikan. Demokrasi ekonomi mengusulkan semacam sosialisme pasaran yang lebih memecahkan kawalan ke atas perusahaan, mata wang, pelaburan, dan sumber daya alam.
Gerakan politik sosialis mencakup serangkaian falsafah sahsiah yang berasal dari gerakan revolusioner pertengahan hingga akhir abad ke-18, dan kerana adanya kepedulian terhadap masalah sosial yang terkait dengan kapitalisme.[13] Pada akhir abad ke-19, setelah karya Karl Marx dan kolaboratornya Friedrich Engels, sosialisme telah menjadi wahana melawan kapitalisme dan menganjurkan sistem pascakapitalis yang didasarkan kepada kemahuan sesebuah masyarakat berhak milik ke atas pengusahaan hasil kekayaan diraih.[20][21] Pada 1920-an, demokrasi sosial dan komunisme dominan di gerakan sosialis antarabangsa.[22] Pada masa tersebut sosialisme muncul sebagai "gerakan sekular paling berpengaruh pada abad ke-20 di seluruh dunia. Sosialisme adalah ideologi politik (atau pandangan dunia), gerakan politik yang luas dan terpecah-pecah"[23] dan ketika kebangkitan Kesatuan Soviet sebagai negara sosialis nominal pertama di dunia menyebabkan menyebarnya asosisasi sosialisme dengan model ekonomi Soviet, beberapa ahli ekonomi dan cendekiawan berpendapat bahawa model tersebut berfungsi sebagai bentuk kapitalisme negara,[24][25][26] pentadbiran tidak terancang atau ekonomi komando.[27][28]
Socialism, you see, is a bird with two wings. The definition is 'social ownership and democratic control of the instruments and means of production.'
A society may be defined as socialist if the major part of the means of production of goods and services is in some sense socially owned and operated, by state, socialised or cooperative enterprises. The practical issues of socialism comprise the relationships between management and workforce within the enterprise, the interrelationships between production units (plan versus markets), and, if the state owns and operates any part of the economy, who controls it and how.
Socialism is an economic system characterised by state or collective ownership of the means of production, land, and capital.
Socialism may be defined as movements for social ownership and control of the economy. It is this idea that is the common element found in the many forms of socialism.
Socialist systems are those regimes based on the economic and political theory of socialism, which advocates public ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources.
Pure socialism is defined as a system wherein all of the means of production are owned and run by the government and/or cooperative, nonprofit groups.
This alteration in the relationship between economy and politics is evident in the very definition of a socialist economic system. The basic characteristic of such a system is generally reckoned to be the predominance of the social ownership of the means of production.
Just as private ownership defines capitalism, social ownership defines socialism. The essential characteristic of socialism in theory is that it destroys social hierarchies, and therefore leads to a politically and economically egalitarian society. Two closely related consequences follow. First, every individual is entitled to an equal ownership share that earns an aliquot part of the total social dividend…Second, in order to eliminate social hierarchy in the workplace, enterprises are run by those employed, and not by the representatives of private or state capital. Thus, the well-known historical tendency of the divorce between ownership and management is brought to an end. The society—i.e. every individual equally—owns capital and those who work are entitled to manage their own economic affairs.
In order of increasing decentralisation (at least) three forms of socialized ownership can be distinguished: state-owned firms, employee-owned (or socially) owned firms, and citizen ownership of equity.
This term is harder to define, since socialists disagree among themselves about what socialism ‘really is.’ It would seem that everyone (socialists and nonsocialists alike) could at least agree that it is not a system in which there is widespread private ownership of the means of production…To be a socialist is not just to believe in certain ends, goals, values, or ideals. It also requires a belief in a certain institutional means to achieve those ends; whatever that may mean in positive terms, it certainly presupposes, at a minimum, the belief that these ends and values cannot be achieved in an economic system in which there is widespread private ownership of the means of production…Those who favor socialism generally speak of social ownership, social control, or socialization of the means of production as the distinctive positive feature of a socialist economic system.
Socialists have always recognized that there are many possible forms of social ownership of which co-operative ownership is one...Nevertheless, socialism has throughout its history been inseparable from some form of common ownership. By its very nature it involves the abolition of private ownership of capital; bringing the means of production, distribution, and exchange into public ownership and control is central to its philosophy. It is difficult to see how it can survive, in theory or practice, without this central idea.
As the nineteenth century progressed, "socialist" came to signify not only concern with the social question, but opposition to capitalism and support for some form of social ownership.
In the USSR in the late 1980s the system was normally referred to as the ‘administrative-command’ economy. What was fundamental to this system was not the plan but the role of administrative hierarchies at all levels of decision making; the absence of control over decision making by the population...