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SOCIALIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A political advocate of socialism
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("socialist" is a kind of...):
pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "socialist"):
commie; communist (a socialist who advocates communism)
Fabian (a member of the Fabian Society in Britain)
internationalist (a member of a socialist or communist international)
Menshevik (a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution)
collectivist; left-winger; leftist (a person who belongs to the political left)
Instance hyponyms:
Castro; Fidel Castro; Fidel Castro Ruz (Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927))
Engels; Friedrich Engels (socialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895))
Big Bill Haywood; Haywood; William Dudley Haywood (United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928))
Pierre Joseph Proudhon; Proudhon (French socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865))
Norman Mattoon Thomas; Norman Thomas; Thomas (United States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968))
Derivation:
socialism (a political theory advocating state ownership of industry)
socialism (an economic system based on state ownership of capital)
socialist (advocating or following the socialist principles)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Advocating or following the socialist principles
Example:
socialistic government
Synonyms:
socialist; socialistic
Classified under:
Similar:
collective (set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government)
collectivised; collectivist; collectivistic; collectivized; state-controlled (subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively)
Also:
left (of or belonging to the political or intellectual left)
Derivation:
socialist (a political advocate of socialism)
Context examples:
"I never can puzzle out why you, of all men, are a socialist," Martin pondered.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And you call me a socialist because I deny equality, because I affirm just what you live up to.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He's a tramp—laziest man I ever knew, though he's clerking, or trying to, in a socialist cooperative store for six dollars a week.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And there's Andy, a stone- mason, has ideas on everything, a good chess-player; and another fellow, Harry, a baker, red hot socialist and strong union man.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And they will eat you up, you socialists—who are afraid of socialism and who think yourselves individualists.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He ignored Mr. Morse, who said: I am unconvinced. All socialists are Jesuits.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The socialist philosophy that riots half-baked in your veins has passed me by.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He talked with a quartermaster off duty, an intelligent man who promptly prodded him with the socialist propaganda and forced into his hands a bunch of leaflets and pamphlets.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But he had been commended for his brilliant description of the socialist meeting and had further been detailed to get a personal interview with Martin Eden, the leader of the organized menace to society.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Of course, they could squirm as they perished, as the socialists squirmed, as the speaker on the platform and the perspiring crowd were squirming even now as they counselled together for some new device with which to minimize the penalties of living and outwit the Cosmos.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
