Should Socialist Be Capitalized?

Communism, capitalism, socialism, and solidarity need caps in headings and articles? Your three "isms" are common nouns and should not be capitalized (except of course when they're the first word of a sentence/title/heading/etc).

Should capitalist be capitalized?

Should capitalism be capitalized? ... Capitalism is a noun and represents a political concept or ideology. Capitalism, in most instances, is not the name of a party or group of people, so it cannot be a proper noun. Therefore, capitalism is lowercased.

Do you have to capitalize communism?

The editors of Orbis have adapted this rule as follows: “communist” is capitalized only in reference to a party with the word “communist” in its official name: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the Communist Party in the former Soviet Union; the Communists under Stalin; Bolsheviks; the Communists in China.