scientific socialistn.adj.
/ˌsʌɪənˌtɪfɪk ˈsəʊʃəlɪst/, /ˌsʌɪənˌtɪfɪk ˈsəʊʃl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌsaɪənˌtɪfɪk ˈsoʊʃələst/ A. n.
Originally: a socialist whose theories are systematic. Later: an advocate of scientific socialism; esp. a Marxist. Opposed to utopian socialist.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > other types of socialism > adherents of
Saint-Simonist1829
Saint-Simonian1831
Saint-Simonite1831
Christian Socialist1838
societarian1842
democratic socialist1848
social democrat1848
utopian socialist1849
scientific socialist1852
state socialist1879
champagne socialist1906
guild socialist1913
state capitalist1915
maximalist1918
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > Marxism > adherent of
scientific socialist1852
Marxist1873
Marxian1896
Marxite1902
1852 J. R. Morell in J. R. Morell & A. Johnson tr. W. G. Tennemann Man. Hist. Philos. (rev. ed.) i. ii. 110 Plato's Republic is the earliest systematic treatise on Socialism, and the philosopher himself the earliest scientific Socialist. [No corresponding sentence in the German original.]
1858 Economist 30 Oct. 1208/1 We shall find the farmers and the landlords in a state of antagonism... This is a social fact; let the scientific socialists mark and remember it.
1908 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 18 368 That family relations are closely connected with property is attested by the attitude of most scientific socialists.
1984 Washington Post 10 Jan. a14/1 The scientific socialists running post-Mao China.
2007 D. Glaser in D. Glaser & D. M. Walker 20th-cent. Marxism xi. 209 Scientific socialists dismissed such ethical (read: speculative, ideological) consideration as ‘utopian’.
B. adj.
Of or relating to scientific socialism or its advocates; esp. Marxist. Opposed to utopian socialist.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [adjective] > other types of socialism
societarian1822
Saint-Simonian1830
Saint-Simonite1831
democratic socialist1848
social democratic1848
social democratic1849
social democratic1850
internationalist1871
social democrat1874
state socialist1882
utopian socialist1884
scientific socialist1887
state-capitalistic1896
revisionist1903
state capitalist1904
liberal1955
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [adjective] > relating to Marxism
Marxian1887
scientific socialist1887
Marxist1890
Marxite1895
non-Marxist1930
1887 E. B. Bax in E. B. Bax & C. Bradlaugh Will Socialism benefit Eng. People? 19 The relation between Utopian and Scientific Socialist theory is that they are both products of the same intellectual movement at different stages.
1934 F. G. Wilson Labor in League Syst. ii. 30 The socialist movement, that is, the scientific socialist program of Marx and Engels, [etc.].
1986 Times 5 Nov. 15/7 The spirit of the old scientific socialist society in which films were made about brave children who stood up and told on their parents.
2007 Labour Hist. 92 48 The increasingly scientific-socialist Australian Socialist League.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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