socialist

1. Advocating or following the socialist principles (synset 300298907)
   "socialistic government"
   also: left - of or belonging to the political or intellectual left
   similar to:

   • collective - set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government
   • collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled - subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively
   same as: socialistic

1. A political advocate of socialism (synset 110638364)
   is a type of: pol, political leader, politician, politico - a person active in party politics
   subtypes:

   • commie, communist - a socialist who advocates communism
   • fabian - a member of the Fabian Society in Britain
   • internationalist - a member of a socialist or communist international
   • menshevik - a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution
   • collectivist, left-winger, leftist - a person who belongs to the political left
   specific instances:

   • castro, fidel castro, fidel castro ruz - Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)
   • engels, friedrich engels - socialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895)
   • big bill haywood, haywood, william dudley haywood - United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)
   • pierre joseph proudhon, proudhon - French socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865)
   • norman mattoon thomas, norman thomas, thomas - United States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968)

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