• Socialist

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    Full definition of socialist

    Adjective

    socialist

    1. Of, promoting, practicing, or characteristic of socialism.
      • 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, Book II, Chapter 1:...it must be remembered that in a Socialist farm or manufactory, each labourer would be under the eye not of one master, but of the whole community.
      • 1949, Albert Einstein, "Why Socialism?", Monthly Review, May 1949:I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

    Noun

    socialist

    (plural socialists)
    1. One who practices or advocates socialism.
      • 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, Book II, Chapter 1:A contest, who can do most for the common good, is not the kind of competition which Socialists repudiate.

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