socialist
Other forms: socialists
A socialist is someone who supports a political or economic philosophy that says society as a whole, rather than private companies, should own or control various goods and services.
The word socialist has become so politicized that it can be hard to define accurately. The original 19th century socialists were Marxists who believed that workers, and society, should have total control of the means of production. This economic philosophy (and the accompanying politics) is known as socialism. Today's socialists hold a wide variety of beliefs, from community ownership of land and businesses to government control of goods and services for the public good, funded through taxation.
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advocating or following the socialist principlessynonyms: socialisticcollectiveset up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a governmentcollectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlledsubscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectivelyleftof or belonging to the political or intellectual left
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a political advocate of socialismexamples:Fidel Castro RuzCuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)Friedrich Engelssocialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895)William Dudley HaywoodUnited States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)Pierre Joseph ProudhonFrench socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865)Norman Mattoon ThomasUnited States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968)types:Fabiana member of the Fabian Society in Britaininternationalista member of a socialist or communist internationalMenshevika Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolutionapparatchika communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist partyBolshevik, Bolshevista Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist partyComradea fellow member of the Communist Partyrevisionista Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary positiontype of:
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