Re “Socialism” (Letter, Feb. 12): Everyone talks about socialism, but hardly anyone defines it. It used to be that socialism and communism were used interchangeably, but it makes no sense to use two ...

Socialism is an economic and political system in which the means of production – such as factories, land, and resources – are owned or controlled collectively by society, usually through the ...

Right-wing politicians often conjure up a caricature vision of socialism defined either by Soviet-style gulags or the authoritarianism and shortages seen in modern-day Venezuela. But debates over the ...

People of a certain ideological ilk seem to overuse the term “socialism” for anything economic or political they don’t like, i.e., Dave Spaulding’s “Socialism comes to Montpelier” in a recent Times ...