Socialist’s gutted over widespread conflict (6)
I believe the answer is:
strife
'conflict' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'socialist's gutted over widespread' is the wordplay.
'gutted' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (to gut something is to remove its insides).
'over' says to put letters next to each other.
'widespread' becomes 'rife' (I've seen this before).
'socialist' with its middle taken out is 'st'.
'st'+'rife'='STRIFE'
(Other definitions for strife that I've seen before include "Contention or contest" , "Warfare" , "'Discord, conflict (6)'" , "Trouble, hassle" , "Conflict, quarrelling" .)