as in communist
an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
a lifelong socialist who never lost faith in his cause
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Recent Examples of socialist
Remember this yet again next time conservatives marinating in their victimhood claim Hollywood is full of socialists.
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
And that Zohran, the scary communist socialist, is the alternative to the Republican working-class party, and he is villainized by the Democratic establishment.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Fateh, a democratic socialist, won the endorsement on July 19 at a Minneapolis DFL convention marked by difficulties and delays with the party’s electronic voting system.
—Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
Throughout the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, Jewish socialists, liberals, anarchists, and Zionists all saw their respective political programs as offering a remedy for anti-Semitism.
—Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
And that Zohran, the scary communist socialist, is the alternative to the Republican working-class party, and he is villainized by the Democratic establishment.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Fateh, a democratic socialist, won the endorsement on July 19 at a Minneapolis DFL convention marked by difficulties and delays with the party’s electronic voting system.
—Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
Throughout the late nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, Jewish socialists, liberals, anarchists, and Zionists all saw their respective political programs as offering a remedy for anti-Semitism.
—Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for socialist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialist
communist
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Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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The dead communist doesn’t live to regret underestimating Manville’s character, but others will — albeit less for her capability than for her willingness to fight back.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Socialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialist. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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