democratic socialistn.adj.
/ˌdɛməkratɪk ˈsəʊʃəlɪst/, /ˌdɛməkratɪk ˈsəʊʃl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌdɛməkrædɪk ˈsoʊʃələst/ A. n.
An advocate of democratic socialism; a member of a political party whose aims are those of democratic socialism. Cf. social democrat n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > other types of socialism > adherents of
Saint-Simonist1829
Saint-Simonian1831
Saint-Simonite1831
Christian Socialist1838
societarian1842
democratic socialist1848
social democrat1848
utopian socialist1849
scientific socialist1852
state socialist1879
champagne socialist1906
guild socialist1913
state capitalist1915
maximalist1918
1848 Standard 13 May A meeting of democratic Socialists has been called to meet this day.
1852 F. L. Olmsted Walks & Talks of Amer. Farmer in Eng. 239 Why, sir, they were democratic socialists, and the worst sort, ‘having all things in common’, the record of their acts says.
1870 tr. M. F. Bastiat Sophisms of Protectionists 349 It is thus that the democratic Socialist, Thore, expresses himself.
1909 Lumber World 1 Feb. 32b/1 I am a democratic socialist, and a republican in politics.
1948 Observer 7 Mar. 4/2 Communists have no use for democratic Socialists except as stooges, and the end they are working for is not Socialism but the totalitarian police-State.
1991 Japan Forum 3 298 During the 1950s, the fissiparous Japanese Socialists spent much time debating whether they were ‘social democrats’..or ‘democratic socialists’.., the point being whether ‘socialism’ or ‘democracy’ should come first.
2002 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 16 July His allies say there is a political philosophy at work: a democratic socialist will fund good services no matter how they are paid.
B. adj.
Of or relating to democratic socialism or its advocates; that advocates or supports democratic socialism; spec. designating any of various political parties that support democratic socialism. Cf. social democratic adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [adjective] > other types of socialism
societarian1822
Saint-Simonian1830
Saint-Simonite1831
democratic socialist1848
social democratic1848
social democratic1849
social democratic1850
internationalist1871
social democrat1874
state socialist1882
utopian socialist1884
scientific socialist1887
state-capitalistic1896
revisionist1903
state capitalist1904
liberal1955
1848 Standard 21 Nov. There was a banquet of Democratic Socialist leaders at the Barriere du Maine.
1849 Littell's Living Age 20 Jan. 143/2 Now, if we look to the democratic socialist party, we behold a compact, intelligent body.
1905 N. Amer. Rev. July 95 Other Socialist bodies, such as the Democratic Socialist party of Poland and Lithuania, and the Polish party of Socialists, were issuing manifestoes calling upon all working-men to cease work on the First of May.
1968 H. W. Laidler Hist. Socialism xliii. 742 Mr. Hillquit's distinction between government ownership and collective ownership..was..the distinction made between the state socialist and the democratic socialist approach.
1979 T. Benn Arguments for Socialism i. 38 It is not only in the West that Marxism is seen as one of the main sources of democratic socialist philosophy.
2002 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Sept. 7/4 He saw high public spending and robust state intervention as the sine qua non of a democratic socialist society.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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