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
What's to stop a radical left president from using these enormous new powers to fire the whole Trump bureaucracy and replace it with socialists?
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Consider their ratings of Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with the Democratic Party but describes himself as a democratic socialist.
—David Campbell, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2025
Apparently, feedback from the meeting with the socialists was positive.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
This points to a basic fact that socialists, mercantilists, economic nationalists and other would-be central planners cannot grasp.
—David B. McGarry, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025
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Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Consider their ratings of Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with the Democratic Party but describes himself as a democratic socialist.
—David Campbell, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2025
Apparently, feedback from the meeting with the socialists was positive.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
This points to a basic fact that socialists, mercantilists, economic nationalists and other would-be central planners cannot grasp.
—David B. McGarry, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialist
communist
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One was a novelist, another a proud fascist, another a communist, and another was inexplicably in love with Adolf Hitler, to name a few.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
19 May 2025
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Taiwan's government, officially the Republic of China, fled to the island after losing the Chinese civil war to Mao's communists in 1949.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
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“Socialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialist. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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