Objectivists criticize socialism as devaluing the individual, and making people incapable of choosing their own values, as decisions are made centrally.

Market economists generally criticise socialism for eliminating the free market and its price signals, which they consider necessary for rational economic calculation.

He has written books and articles which criticize socialism, and was an important dissident during the Soviet regime.

The novel criticizes British socialism.

The party sits in the centre of the political spectrum, criticising both socialism and the free market.

He further criticized the media for taking advantage of greater press freedom by criticizing the party and socialism.

Giddens criticizes conventional socialism for its common advocacy that socialization of production, as achieved by central planning, can overcome the irrationalities of capitalism.

This in turn led him back to his earlier issues of criticising bureaucracy, state capitalism and socialism.

Much of his later work was aimed at criticizing communism, socialism and collectivism in general.