Noun 1. socialist - a political advocate of socialism

commie, communist - a socialist who advocates communism

Fabian - a member of the Fabian Society in Britain

internationalist - a member of a socialist or communist international

Menshevik - a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution

pol, political leader, politico, politician - a person active in party politics

collectivist, left-winger, leftist - a person who belongs to the political left

Castro, Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Ruz - Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a
dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)

Engels, Friedrich Engels - socialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx in 1848 (1820-1895)

Big Bill Haywood, Haywood, William Dudley Haywood - United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)

Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Proudhon - French socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865)

Norman Mattoon Thomas, Norman Thomas, Thomas - United States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968)

Adj. 1. socialist - of or relating to or promoting or practicing socialism; "socialist theory"; "socialist realism"; "asocialist party"

socialistic

2. socialist - advocating or following the socialist principles; "socialistic government"

socialistic

left - of or belonging to the political or intellectual left