antisocialist

Examples

• All

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

  Academic text (2006)

• The authorities have responded by reiterating their old antimarket rhetoric and staging frequent (but unsuccessful) campaigns against what they call "subversive, antisocialist activities."

  Academic text (2008)

• All of this was done in the prevailing antisocialist atmosphere described above.

  Academic text (1996)

• We have declared war against the American imperialists, Zionists, terrorists, and all other antisocialist atrocities.

  The Delta Force (1986)

• In fact, the radicalization and polarization of the revolution in 1919 reinforced the antisocialist thrust of the Catholic workers' movement throughout the 1920s.

  Academic text (1999)

• Politically, the Cold War exerted antisocialist pressures on the PNP and pushed it towards the nonideological political center where it competed with the JLP primarily on the basis of patronage.

  Academic text (1992)

• He copied the text of the interview and sent it to a member of the Politburo, Hermann Axen, accusing E.G. of performing antisocialist activities in the very center of imperialism.

  Academic text (2013)

• The politicians proposed antisocialist measures to limit the government's role in the economy.

• Many argued that antisocialist policies could harm the welfare of the lower class.

Synonyms

N

nonsocialist

vsantisocialist

6.7

Not supporting public ownership or state control of businesses

is firmly opposed to socialism rather than simply neutral

Antonyms

S

socialist

169 4.9

Relating to or supporting community ownership of businesses and public services

How Opposed

hostile

238 4.6

antisocialist

1 7.5

critical

234 3.8

neutral

198 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology