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? 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 See All Example Sentences for socialist
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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
  • 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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