antisocialist

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See also: anti-socialist

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Etymology

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From anti- +‎ socialist.

Noun

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antisocialist (plural antisocialists)

  1. (politics) One who opposes socialism.
    • 1981, The Nation - Volume 232, page 406:
      Hayden's problem here, I think, is an excessive consistency: not being a socialist, or at least not wanting to take his political stand on that principle, he assumes he must, then, be an antisocialist.

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antisocialist (comparative more antisocialist, superlative most antisocialist)

  1. Opposed to socialism.
    • 2010, Bruce Hodgins, Don Wright, W.H. Heick, Federalism in Canada and Australia: The Early Years:
      Labor could scarcely barter with a party that adopted an antisocialist stance or trade support in return for concessions with a party terming itself antisocialist.
    • 2019, Gerard Braunthal, The German Social Democrats Since 1969:
      One year later, the responses were even more antisocialist: 64 percent, no; 15 percent, yes; and 21 percent, undecided or with no opinion.
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