anti-socialist

adjective

an·​ti-so·​cial·​ist

ˌan-tē-ˈsō-sh(ə-)list,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or antisocialist

: characterized by or expressing opposition to socialists or socialism

an anti-socialist movement/thinker

In 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, many took this not just as the symbolic end to Soviet communism but more broadly as a vindication of anticommunist, antisocialist, or at least antirevolutionary positions.

—Judith Ezekiel

anti-socialist noun

or antisocialist

plural anti-socialists or antisocialists

For the most part, however, the writings of the antisocialists remain neglected or derided as doctrinaire tracts …

—John Gray

Examples of anti-socialist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Many of these voters are staunchly anti-socialist and view the Democratic Party as more sympathetic to socialist views, McCarty said. —Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024

China is such a significant player in South America that even Argentina’s anti-socialist firebrand president, Javier Milei, has had to dial back his rhetoric. —Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

The Reactionary Ideology and Culture Rejection Act was introduced that year, banning the population from distributing, watching or listening to any cultural content deemed to be anti-socialist. —Jack Guy, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024

French intellectual and media personality Bernard-Henri Lévy, who rose to prominence with the anti-socialist New Philosophers movement in the 1970s, has never stopped thinking about civilization’s perilous situation around the world. —Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1840, in the meaning defined above