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One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

ocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

The coöperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.

ing an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.

One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.

A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.

of sandy ground, -- hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of California, framed in 1879, under the influen…

aning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itsel…