scientific socialism

noun

: 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 compare utopian socialism

Word History

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

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