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socialist

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noun

an advocate or supporter of socialism.

(initial capital letter) a member of the U.S. Socialist party.

adjective

socialistic.

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Origin:
1825–35; social + -ist

Related forms

non·so·cial·ist, noun, adjective

pre·so·cial·ist, noun

sem·i·so·cial·ist, noun

Can be confused: communist, fascist, Marxist, socialist.

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If his first vocation was socialist agitator, his second was journalist.

Nowadays officials openly state that their aim is to implant a socialist economy.

The moderate socialist government has initiated economic reforms.

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If his first vocation was socialist agitator, his second was journalist.

Nowadays officials openly state that their aim is to implant a socialist economy.

The moderate socialist government has initiated economic reforms.

As countries have become more socialist they have watched their standard of living deteriorate.

But the socialist state also suffers high levels of unemployment.

HavenCo will reveal the obsolescence of the socialist nation-state.

Academic success does not come from a socialist mentality.

They will learn about liberation movements, but only socialist ones.

US is getting behind in so many areas only because other countries are socialist.

Think of it as the socialist model for informational exchange.

Incentives to invest in the socialist republic included lengthy exemptions from taxes.

Anyone who believes different is a socialist or a commie.

Beyond that, there are endless examples of socialist themes in literary science fiction.

They also correctly identified the bubble as being caused by socialist policies artificially propping a market.

I've covered nightclub openings, investment banks, and a privately established socialist microstate.

Maybe this is because they don't want to be seen negatively in a socialist society.

Morris was known for being an outspoken socialist as well as an environmentalist.

Unfortunately unless you have a socialist solution to offer on this forum you will be ridiculed by the majority.

Now it's ditching its socialist roots to try to grab its share of the billion-dollar industry it spawned.

Talk about your socialist intervention in the private sector.

The authorities have seen what can happen when the information revolution takes a swipe at its socialist predecessor.

Our human spaceflight capability has been gutted in exchange for socialist domestic interests.

And now that the socialist circus realizes that they can no longer waste money.

After a decade-long top-secret crash program, socialist science had succeeded in building the world's largest microprocessor.

The country had a socialist government and yet they were courting multinational investment.

Other socialist states with increasingly fascist governments historically have devalued higher education.

Once the crisis was admitted, the socialist government increased hugely the spendings in an attempt to exit from the crisis.

He likened his situation to that of a socialist studying economics in a department with a supply-side bent.

Big government, and to some degree socialist values.

There is nothing at all socialist about the food program.

Today's environmentalist is yesterday's socialist who couldn't find a voter to push their agenda.

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socialist (ˈsəʊʃəlɪst)

—n
1.	a supporter or advocate of socialism or any party promoting socialism (socialist party)

—*adj*
2.	of, characteristic of, implementing, or relating to socialism
3.	(sometimes capital) of, characteristic of, or relating to socialists or a socialist party

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Word Origin & History

socialist

1827, from Fr. socialiste, in reference to the teachings of Comte de Saint-Simon, founder of French socialism. The word begins to be used in French in the modern sense c.1835. Socialista, with a different sense, was applied 18c. to followers and pupils of Dutch jurist Grotius (1583-1645).

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"Prison is a Socialist's Paradise, where equality prevails, everything is supplied and competition is eliminated." [Elbert Hubbard, "The Note Book," 1927]

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