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socialist

[ soh-shuh-list ]

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noun

socialist

/ ˈsəʊʃəlɪst /

a supporter or advocate of socialism or any party promoting socialism ( socialist party )

of, characteristic of, implementing, or relating to socialism
sometimes capital of, characteristic of, or relating to socialists or a socialist party

First recorded in 1825–35; social + -ist

“He is ‘an independent socialist,’” said one organizer supportive of Warren.

Trierweiler claims that Hollande, a socialist, showed contempt for the poor, supposedly calling them “the toothless.”

But Clintonistas do not largely see the self-described Democratic Socialist as a credible threat.

Venezuela is known for both its socialist economic policies and its beauty queens.

Reformers understood that constructive societal evolution was the antidote to socialist revolution.

It was a difficulty foreseen long ago in Socialist discussions, but never completely met by the thorough-paced Communist.

All must work for the state; only in a socialist commonwealth can social justice be found.

The socialist reads such criticism as the above with impatient approval.

We may apply to it with advantage the spectacles of social reform, but what the socialist offers us is total blindness.

The collectivist state advocated by the socialist of to-day has scarcely anything in common with the communism of the middle ages.

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