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
But America’s regulated economy and social safety net didn’t just materialize after an invasion of socialists from Mars.
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Mark Green, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
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
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Mark Green, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for socialist
communist
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There were complaints that the adaptation by George Clooney and Grant Heslov was basically a reproduction of the 2005 film, which chronicled CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s heroic crusade against Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch hunts.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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In a very short period of time, Trump had decided to go back in time to roughly 100 years ago when Europe meant nothing to us other than rapacious capitalists and communists all out to get us and drag us in to their nefarious ways.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
27 May 2025
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“Socialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socialist. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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