socialist vs politico

socialist and politico both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
socialist	Yes	Yes	No	No
politico	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, politico is a hypernym of socialist; that is, politico is a word with a broader meaning than socialist:

Other hypernyms of socialist include pol, political leader, politician.

socialist (noun)	politico (noun)
a political advocate of socialism	a person active in party politics

socialist (adjective)	politico (adjective)
advocating or following the socialist principles