0 a supporter of socialism or member of a socialist political party:
He was a socialist all his life.
1 supporting or relating to socialism:
socialist policies
2 having to do with socialism:
3 a person who believes in or belongs to a party that supports socialism:
He is a dedicated socialist.
4 supporting or relating to socialism:
a socialist country/government/party
The last 20 years has seen the transformation of India's sleepy socialist economy into a dynamic engine of internationalization and growth.
To a man with his socialist beliefs, the idea of selling his hard-earned scientific knowledge is unthinkable.
If this order was not acknowledged, as socialists did not, then science had no laws to study.
They disadvantaged socialists, proponents of industrial unions, and the adoption of inclusive statutory labor protections.
Nevertheless, the absence of the socialists from parliament did not mean their withdrawal from the political struggle.
The socialists, locally and nationally, were bitterly opposed to the left-catholics.
Historians have begun to notice, without needing to dismiss it as an embarrassingly sentimental anachronistic quirk, that religion was a vital issue for early socialists.
There is abundant evidence that the early socialists considered religious faith, in tandem with mass education, a vital motivating force in their battle against poverty.
The socialists are now almost as isolated as the communists.
The choices for socialists had generally been restricted to a menu of 'all or nothing'.
