Gucci socialist

English

Etymology

From Gucci +‎ socialist.

Noun

Gucci socialist (plural Gucci socialists)

1. A person who claims to support the worker's control over the means of production, but has a lifestyle that does not match his/her beliefs.

   Synonyms: chardonnay socialist, gauche caviar, champagne socialist, silver-spoon socialist, smoked salmon socialist

   • 1991, Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Victoria Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: Legislative Assembly:

     It is very much the Gucci socialist party that has lost contact with the average working man.

   • 2008 September 24, Kenneth Allinson, Architects and Architecture of London, Routledge, →ISBN, page 328:

     In fact, as an old man, Goldfinger was largely forgotten, described by himself as demonised, and by others as embittered and a 'Gucci Socialist' hungry for the social significance of a knighthood.