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socialist Definition

so·cial·ist (-ist)

noun

  1. an advocate or supporter of socialism
  2. a member of a Socialist Party

adjective

  1. of or like socialism or socialists
  2. advocating or supporting socialism
  3. of or having to do with a Socialist Party

socialist Related Forms
so′·cial·is′·ti·cally adverb
socialist Synonyms

socialist

n.

Fourierite, Marxist, communist, Fabian; see democrat, radical.

socialist Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: In 1910 Berger became the first socialist in the United States to be elected to Congress.
  • think: I think socialists have to say that this isn't good enough.

Converse of subject

  • lead: During this century, there have been dozens of revolutions led by undeniable socialists.

Adjective modifier

  • utopian: The ' utopian socialists ' were the other group considered by the Manifesto.
  • revolutionary: What is less well known is that she was a revolutionary socialist.
  • statist: Which earned us only greater hatred from the statist socialists.
  • committed: A committed socialist, Hodgkin was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1987.
  • democratic: As democratic socialists, we believe they complement each other.
  • militant: We believe profoundly that a close study of the events of that time would immensely benefit the militant Socialists of all countries.

Modifies a noun

  • revolution: He says, âThe basis of our Socialist Revolution is in the working class.
  • bookshop: Bookmarks Visit Bookmarks, Britain's leading socialist bookshop.
  • republic: At 12:05 PM, Sarah said... All it would take to turn the world into a socialist republic is to drink hot chocolate?
  • realism: Socialist Realism was launched, an artistic style to go with the Popular Front.
  • Utopia: They have issued total surrender, They have invited everybody to Earth to live on Mars, in their socialist Utopia.
  • transformation: I believe that the real solution to the problems of the world lies in a socialist transformation of society.

Modifying Another Word

  • explicitly: It has been pointed out that the program of Respect is not clearly anti-capitalist, not explicitly socialist.
  • genuinely: On the basis of a genuinely socialist planned economy, it could be the richest country on earth.
  • truly: Any truly socialist party would not want to create a successful revolution itself - that is the task for millions of ordinary people.
  • even: It asks whether the experience of Total War created demands for a radical, or even socialist, reconstruction of society.

Noun used with modifier

  • champagne: The champagne socialists are now the ones with a full tank of gasoline.
socialist Quotes

Michael Harrington†was America's leading socialist; a position, one might have thought, that almost epitomized marginality.

—The Economist

The main business of socialist parties is not to form governments but to change minds.

—King, Carlyle

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Any man who is not something of a Socialist before he is forty hasno heart. Any manwho isstill a Socialist afterhe is forty has no head. SeeTwain 872:35.

—Willkie,Wendell Lewis

The Socialist papers†came out full tothethroat of well- printed matter†admirable and straightforward expositions of the doctrines and practice of Socialism, free from hasteand spiteand hard words†with a kind of May-day freshness amidst the worryand terror of the moment.

—Morris,William

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

—Nozick, Robert

In an era of precipitous decline for Britain and its once- global empire, Harold Wilson was a fixture for 30 years, a solid workingman's socialist in a rumpled ready-to- wear suit and his trademark Gannex mackintosh.

—McFadden, Robert D(ennis)

Igreet you as the advanceguard of the world proletarian army. The hour is not far off when†the German people will turn their weapons againsttheircapitalist exploiters. The sun of the socialist revolution has already risen.

—Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov

If the worst came to the worst and half of mankind died, the other half would remain while imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world could become socialist.

—Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung