Socialist vs. Conservative — What's the Difference?

A person who advocates or practises socialism

Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.

Adhering to or based on the principles of socialism

Traditional or restrained in style

An advocate of socialism.

Moderate; cautious

Often Socialist A member of a political party or group that advocates socialism.

Of or relating to the political philosophy of conservatism.

Of, promoting, or practicing socialism.

Belonging to a conservative party, group, or movement.

Socialist Of, belonging to, or constituting a socialist party or political group.

Conservative Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political conservatism, especially in the United Kingdom or Canada.

Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating socialism.

Conservative Of or adhering to Conservative Judaism.

One who supports or advocates socialism.

Tending to conserve; preservative

One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism.

One favoring traditional views and values.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.

A supporter of political conservatism.

A political advocate of socialism

Conservative A member or supporter of a Conservative political party.

Of or relating to or promoting or practicing socialism;

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.

Advocating or following the socialist principles;

(politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.

A person who favors decentralization of political power and disfavors interventionist foreign policy.

A fiscal conservative.

A social conservative.

Cautious, moderate.

Tending to resist change or innovation.

Based on pessimistic assumptions.

Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

Relating to the Conservative Party.

Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.

(Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.

(clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.

(medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)

Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.

Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.

Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; - contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.

One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.

One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; - opposed to revolutionary or radical.

A member of the Conservative party.

A person who has conservative ideas or opinions

Resistant to change

Opposed to liberal reforms

Avoiding excess;

Unimaginatively conventional;

Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;