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• n  a political advocate of socialism
• a  advocating or following the socialist principles
  socialistic government

• In 1915 Ben-Gurion, expelled from Palestine for his nationalist and socialist activities, chose to go to New York City, where he hastily taught himself English.
• To "mobilize the workers and peasants for socialist construction," Moscow's party line in literature calls for "socialist romanticism.
• Here was Premier Wen Jiabao intoning the importance of "building a new socialist countryside.

• socialistic

• capitalistic

News & Articles

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• Far-right candidate pushes out Socialist in French by-election
  BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - A far-right candidate beat France's ruling Socialist party on Sunday to a place in a by-election run-off vote, reducing the government's slim parliamentary majority and highlighting the rise of the National Front. The seat, vacated by former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who resigned after admitting to holding a previously undeclared Swiss bank account, will now be ...
  June 16, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Venezuela's cardinal: Pope should urge coexistence
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Pope Francis should pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to focus on promoting democracy and peaceful coexistence to ease tensions with the socialist government's opponents, the Catholic Church's top representative in the country said Sunday.
  June 16, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Bulgaria to replace new security chief after public backlash
  SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's Socialist-led government said on Saturday it would reverse its appointment of a powerful media figure as head of state security just a day after rushing it through parliament, bowing to public outrage two weeks after taking power. About 8,000 people rallied in downtown Sofia for a second day, chanting "Mafia!" and "Resignation!". Legislators from the ruling ...
  June 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Dick Morris in News Hounds (blog)
  Morris said, "She is the closest thing we have in America to a European socialist. She believes, honestly and sincerely, that federal taxes should not take 33% of our economy but 47 and 48 and that it should include free health care, free higher...
• John McCain in Mail & Guardian Online
  At least in Europe, the socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are up-front about their objectives. They use real numbers and honest language. And we should demand equal candour from Senator Obama,McCain said.
• Gong Xiantian in Forbes
  The law basically ignores the constitution's upholding of socialist public property as sacred and not to be violated,said Gong Xiantian, a Peking University professor who scuttled passage of the law last year.