Word Meanings - SOCIALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.

SOCIALISM
A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary
ADVOCATESHIP
Office or duty of an advocate.
STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM
Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others