Implicit in this doctrine was that the leadership of the Soviet Union reserved, for itself, the right to define "socialism" and "capitalism".
Zhao was a solid believer in the Party, but he defined socialism very differently than Party conservatives did.
But nobody here seems to know just how to define socialism - particularly in an age of stock markets, private millionaires and horse racing.
The former is what defines socialism.
(p197) They define socialism as a set of moral injunctions on poverty, inequality, and democracy.
The government says these efforts are moving Venezuela toward a vaguely defined "21st-century socialism."
For example, Alexandre Vinet, who claimed to have been the first person to use the term, defined socialism simply as "the opposite of individualism".
Starting out in a socialist-liberal coalition fighting for the vote, the Swedish Social Democrats defined socialism as the development of democracy-political and economic.
The apparatchiks whose gray faces defined Eastern-bloc socialism have long since faded from office, supplanted by elected leaders.
He claims that the model includes only commodity production as an organizational structure and defines socialism only in terms of property rights.