socialists

plural of socialist
as in communists
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 socialists Even socialists are campaigning against the high cost of living. W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025 For years, Republicans have disparaged their political rivals by describing them as socialists. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025 Remember this yet again next time conservatives marinating in their victimhood claim Hollywood is full of socialists. John Tamny, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 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 We’re cursed with loudmouth, throwback hippie socialists in high places, but Arlington’s a pretty, quiet town bracketed by mountains and made famous by Norman Rockwell, who lived and did his best work here from the 1930s into the ’50s. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024 Israel’s first government was led by nationalists and socialists. Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024 Forte, on the campaign trail, had leaned heavily into the argument that Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow Democrats are socialists. Mike Lillis, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024 These modern socialists go after their prey by extensive regulation. Steve Forbes, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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communists
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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
  • The nationalists and communists fell into an uneasy truce with the creation of the second united front in 1937.
    Meredith Oyen, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025

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