Key concepts of socialism

1. a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status in certain respects, often including civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights, and equal access to social goods and services. (6, 8)
5. A belief in the unlimited possibilities of human development, typically embodied in the vision of a perfect society, a utopia. (10)
6. An economy in which there is a mixture of publicly and privately owned industries. (5, 7)
7. any option regarded as an alternative to two extremes, especially a political agenda which is centrist and consensus-based rather than left- or right-wing, characterised by Blair's government. (5, 3)
10. Marxist term denoting ruling class of a capitalist society, owners of productive wealth (means of production) (11)

2. Working together, collective effort intended to achieve mutual benefit. (2, 9)
3. An economic system in which wealth is owned by private individuals or businesses and goods are produced for exchange, according to the dictates of the market. (10)
4. The principle of common ownership of wealth, or a system of comprehensive collectivization; often viewed as ‘Marxism in practice’ (9)
8. Tendency exhibited by socialist parties to serve the interests of the organised labour movement rather than pursue broader ideological goals (9)
9. socialism in which state controls and directs economic life acting in theory in the interests of the people. (5, 9)

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