The elder Nast's socialist political convictions put him at odds with the Bavarian government, and in 1846 he left Landau, enlisting first on a French man-of-war and subsequently on an American ship.

However, Booth was not departing from his spiritual convictions to set-up a socialist or communist society or sub-class, supported by people forced to finance his plans ; Booth's ultimate aim was to get people " saved.

His decision to publish an article by the more radical socialist Axel Danielsson-a piece denounced by opponents as insulting to religious sensitivities-resulted in political convictions for blasphemy and imprisonment for both men.

He later gave up his socialist convictions and became an important ideologue of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy, teaching economics at the University of Perugia.

The song also explores themes of class conflict and working class identity and solidarity, inspired by the band's strong socialist convictions.

Up until the early 1940s, the so-called " Red Finns ," who held deep socialist convictions, far outnumbered " White Finns ," the more religious and conservative Finns.

The party led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and claimed to have established the world's first socialist state.

He is considered " the architect " of a new brand of socialist thinking, having developed Socialism with Chinese characteristics and led Chinese economic reform through a synthesis of theories that became known as the " socialist market economy ".

This led him to declare "... that rational economic activity is impossible in a socialist commonwealth.

The Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies, led by Hoxha's wife Nexhmije, quoted Vladimir Lenin: " The fundamental principle of the foreign policy of a socialist country and of a Communist party is proletarian internationalism ; not peaceful coexistence.

Portugal, belonging to the part of Europe led by the US, remained linked to the idea of the socialist state.

Arab attacks on isolated Jewish settlements and the British failure to protect them led to the creation of the Haganah (" Defense "), a mainly socialist underground Jewish militia dedicated to defending Jewish settlements.

* 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.

The right wing of the Peronist party, the unions, and the Radical Party led by Ricardo Balbín favored a social pact between trade unions and employers rather than a violent socialist revolution.

However, a group of central European economists led by Austrians Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek identified the collectivist underpinnings to the various new socialist and fascist doctrines of government power as being different brands of political totalitarianism.

His socialist values and his close ties with Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) intellectuals ( including F. R. Scott, Eugene Forsey, Michael Kelway Oliver and Charles Taylor ) led to his support and membership in that federal social-democratic party throughout the 1950s.

Eventually, the October Revolution, led by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government and created the world ’ s first socialist state.

The Soviets ( workers ' councils ), which were led by more radical socialist factions, initially permitted the Provisional Government to rule, but insisted on a prerogative to influence the government and control various militias.

For orthodox Marxists, socialism is the lower stage of communism based on the principle of " from each according to his ability, to each according to his contribution " while upper stage communism is based on the principle of " from each according to his ability, to each according to his need "; the upper stage becoming possible only after the socialist stage further develops economic efficiency and the automation of production has led to a superabundance of goods and services.

As a matter of political pragmatism, Lenin reversed Marx's order of economics over politics, allowing for a political revolution led by a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries rather than a spontaneous establishment of socialist institutions led by a spontaneous uprising of the working class as predicted by Karl Marx.

In 1945, the British Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee, was elected to office based upon a radical socialist programme.

In the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party has led a transition from the command economy of the Mao period to an economic program they term the socialist market economy or " socialism with Chinese characteristics ".

Initially Wade's government had the support of a broad section of groups opposed to the socialist government, but gradually individual parties have disassociated themselves from the government and joined the opposition efforts led by PS.

Socialisme ou Barbarie, led by philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis, was a radical Marxist and libertarian socialist group based in France that significantly developed the council communist tradition as well as laying the foundation for autonomism.

Full independence came in December 1961 and Julius Kambarage Nyerere ( 1922 – 1999 ), a socialist leader who led Tanganyika from colonial rule, was elected President in 1962.

The politics of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam are defined by a single-party socialist republic framework, where the President of Vietnam is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Vietnam is the head of government, in a one-party system led by the Communist Party of Vietnam.

" According to the Party's statute, amended at the 9th National Congress on 22 April 2001, the CPV was " established and trained by President Hồ Chí Minh, has led the Vietnamese people to carry out successfully the August Revolution, establishing the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam, now the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam, to defeat foreign invaders, to abolish the colonial and feudalist regime, to liberate and reunify the country, and then carry out the cause of renovation and socialist construction and firmly defend national independence.

From 1922 to 1925, the Fascist movement led by Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy with a nationalist, totalitarian, and class collaborationist agenda that abolished representative democracy, repressed socialist, left wing and liberal forces, and pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at forcefully forging Italy as a world power — a " New Roman Empire ".

He then led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic, nationalizing industry, embarking on the large-scale construction of housing and infrastructure and introducing free healthcare and education ; the administration also halted the freedom of the press and suppressed internal dissidents considered to be counter-revolutionaries.

The economy of Hungary experienced market liberalization in the early 1990s as part of the transition from a socialist economy to a market economy,

He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often ( but not always, as the beginning of the First World War ) sympathising with pacifist views.

In the early years of the 20th century, historical materialism was often treated by socialist writers as interchangeable with dialectical materialism, a formulation never used by Friedrich Engels however.

Iran barely maintained its independence throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, being carved up into spheres of influence, invaded in 1917 and 1941, occupied between 1941 – 1946, subjected to Soviet attempts to create a separate Azerbaijan socialist republic in 1946, and having its government overthrown in 1921 and again in 1953.

One of the earliest such reformers was Robert Owen, known for his pioneering efforts in improving conditions for workers at the New Lanark mills, and often regarded as one of the key thinkers of the early socialist movement.

Although an early Owenite socialist, he eventually rejected its collective idea of property, and found in individualism a " universalism " that allowed for the development of the " original genius.

He was much affected in his early political development by the events of the unsuccessful Workers ’ Revolution in Bavaria that followed the collapse of the German monarchy at the end of World War I ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ), and he remained an idealistic socialist all his life.

Kent Bromley, in his preface to Peter Kropotkin's book The Conquest of Bread, considered early French socialist Charles Fourier to be the founder of the libertarian branch of socialist thought, as opposed to the authoritarian socialist ideas of Babeuf and Buonarroti.

Anarchism posed an early challenge to the vanguardism and statism it detected in important sectors of the socialist movement.

De Leon was an early leader of the first United States socialist political party, the Socialist Labor Party of America.

Both Karl Marx and the early socialist William Morris arguably had a deep concern for environmental matters.

Developed by, and named for, the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin ( Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, 1870 – 1924 ), Leninism comprises political and socialist economic theories, developed from Marxism, and Lenin ’ s interpretations of Marxist theory, for practical application to the socio-political conditions of the agrarian Russian Empire ( 1721 – 1917 ) of the early 20th century.

Lenin remained highly unpopular in the early 1910s, and was so unpopular amongst international socialist movement that by 1914 it considered censoring him.

A weekly journal of Christian liberalism and socialism titled The New Age was published as early as 1894 ; it was sold to a group of socialist writers headed by Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson in 1907.

He was also attracted to socialist and democratic ideals early on in his youth.

Heinlein was active in Upton Sinclair's socialist End Poverty in California movement in the early 1930s.

Charles Fourier, influential early French socialist thinker

Other early socialist thinkers, such as Thomas Hodgkin and Charles Hall, based their ideas on David Ricardo's economic theories.

One of the main theoreticians of Soviet socialist legality in this early phase was Pēteris Stučka.

* partial or total expulsion of the former ruling classes from the public life at early stages of existence of each socialist state ; however, in all socialist states this policy gradually changed into the policy of " one socialist nation without classes "

The Basmachi revolt that broke out in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was quelled in the early 1920s and Tajikistan became an autonomous Soviet socialist republic ( Tajik ASSR ) within Uzbekistan in 1924.