释义 |
welfarism orig. U.S.|ˈwɛlfɛərɪz(ə)m| [f. welfare n. + -ism.] The principles or policies associated with a welfare state; also = welfare-statism.
1949Life 25 July 17/2 There must be safeguards so that welfarism does not end in economic or political tyranny. 1961Engineering 17 Feb. 249/1 All Germans..also agree that the term ‘welfarism’ is likely to have widely different meanings in the U.K. and in Germany. 1962Times 23 Jan. 9/7 Text-books..are slanted towards welfarism, socialism, and world government. 1968P. B. Austin On being Swedish ix. 72 ‘The Swede,’ said old Sundbärg, before welfarism or modern Swedish prosperity were born or thought of, ‘would not mind Sweden being prosperous, providing that no one in it were better off than himself.’ 1976R. Delmar in Mitchell & Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women ix. 283 State regulation of the family through welfarism (family allowances etc.)..means that the working class..has the law available to them. 1984Times 21 Apr. 9/2 The proposition that the ills of Britain..are more or less the fault of capitalism is no more self-evident than the proposition that they are more or less the fault of welfarism. |