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socialist|ˈsəʊʃəlɪst| [Cf. prec. and F. socialiste (Reybaud, 1835).] 1. a. One who advocates or believes in the theory of socialism; an adherent or supporter of socialism.
1827Co-operative Magazine Nov. 509 The chief question..between the modern,..Political Economists, and the Communionists or Socialists, is whether it is more beneficial that this capital should be individual or in common. 1833Poor Man's Guardian 24 Aug. 275/2 [Letter signed] A Socialist. 1833The Crisis 31 Aug. 276/1 The Socialist, who preaches of community of goods, abolition of crime, of punishment, of magistrates, and of marriage. 1853W. Jerdan Autobiog. III. xix. 289 He was..a Socialist in the best sense of the term. 1889Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 182 The young Socialist is apt to be catastrophic in his views. b. Comb., as socialist-controlled, socialist-dominated, socialist-ridden.
1929Times 16 Aug. 11/3 Mr. Moore, the Leader of the Opposition, appealed to the people of this Socialist-ridden State on a promise to substitute for Socialism ‘private effort and enterprise’. 1976N. O'Sullivan Conservatism v. 124 Whenever important bills were opposed by the House of Lords, he suggested, there might be an appeal, in the form of a mass referendum, over the heads of a socialist-dominated House of Commons to the people. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 1 Nov. 3/3 There are many Socialist-controlled local authorities on which the dominant group doesn't give the opposition any places on any committees. 2. attrib. or as adj. Of or pertaining to socialists; socialistic: a. Of persons.
1839J. Mather Socialism Exposed 23 A socialist lecturer expressed his ideas of God. 1856Geo. Eliot Ess. (1884) 114 The Socialist party. 1887St. James's Gaz. 8 Feb. (Cassell), The torchlight Socialist procession. b. Of ideas, theories, etc.
1848W. E. Forster in Reid Life (1888) I. vii. 246 The worst of all Socialist plans I have seen is that all have within them..a damning desire to shirk work. 1850Macaulay in Trevelyan Life (1883) II. 284 The poem is to the last degree Jacobinical, indeed Socialist. 1861Illustr. Lond. N. 17 Aug. 152/1 Working classes..declare their adhesion to the socialist idea. c. In Combs. used attrib. or as adj., as socialist-chauvinist, socialist-feminist, socialist-rebel, socialist-revolutionary, socialist-workman.
1919A. Sirnis tr. Lenin's Collapse of Second International x. 65 This group, the only one which had performed systematic work amongst the masses..turned Socialist-Chauvinist. 1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia ii. 76 He immediately put on the socialist-workman indignation. 1952E. Hobsbawm in Granta 15 Nov. 10/2 The Radical age of the 1820s and 1830s, and the mixed socialist-rebel age which overlapped the first world war. 1976H. T. Willetts tr. Solzhenitsyn's Lenin in Zurich 253 The Socialist-Revolutionary Party was born at the end of 1901 out of the merging of the Populist groups. 1976Women's Report Sept./Oct. 17/1 They would like feedback from the last issue, articles from individuals and groups giving a socialist-feminist analysis of activities.
Add:[1.] [a.] Also, a member of a Socialist political party. (Further examples.)
1871Observer 9 Apr. 6/4 Most of the decrees are the work of illiterate members of the Internationale; they consist of candid attacks on the rights of property,..such as you may expect from vulgar Socialists. 1886Pall Mall Gaz. 19 July 3/2 If the police, as the Socialists declare, discriminate against them on account of their opinions, let evidence be brought to prove it, and the Socialists will have everybody's sympathy. 1898J. E. C. Bodley France II. iv. vii. 427 Significant also is the attitude of the Socialists, who now compose the radical left-wing. 191719th Cent. July 141 The Mensheviki or Minimalists (Moderate Socialists)... The Bolsheviki (Extreme Socialists). 1927Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 9/2 The Labour-Socialists..are in favour of the proposals for the abolition of blind booking and restrictions on advance booking. 1947News Chron. 8 Apr. 2/5 He is an extreme Left-Wing Socialist... In the Commons he is, of course, dubbed a ‘fellow-traveller’ and a ‘crypto-Communist’. 1974J. White tr. Poulantzas's Fascism & Dictatorship iii. iii. 132 Mussolini..decided..to sign a peace pact with the socialists, whom the representatives of medium capital were still counting on to pursue their policy of class collaboration. |