How to Use communism in a Sentence

communism

noun

• On the spectrum of left-wing thought, anarchism is distinct from communism and socialism in its total rejection of the state.
  — Sophie Hayssen, refinery29.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• My son, now a freshman in college, certainly never learned about any of the horrors of socialism or communism during his twelve years in our public schools.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• The ways of fighting against communism and Soviet domination differed over time.
  — Michał Matlak, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2020
• Krvaric, who was born and raised in Sweden, has said in past interviews that his parents were born in Yugoslavia and grew up under communism.
  — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2020
• In no way is that observation intended to equate Luther with Marx or his goals, and certainly not with the destruction produced by communism.
  — Paul Kengor, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
• Civilians are courteous, and most spend their Sundays at church, having sought a deeper spiritual meaning after the crash of communism almost three decades ago.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2020
• In order to haul America down the slippery slope toward either fascism or communism, a president would have to mow down a whole lot of institutional speed bumps.
  — Rachel Marsden, Star Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
• The monarchy faced threats from communism on the left and fascism on the right.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2021
• Trump is not your last stand against the deep state against communism.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2021
• What destabilizes that wing of the party is the Cold War and the threat of communism.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
• East Germans were freed from the dull yoke of communism.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
• Puhoi, like all villages in Moldova, has changed a lot since the fall of communism in 1991.
  — Madeline Roache / Puhoi, Time, 29 Aug. 2019
• The end of communism in 1989 opened the door to restitution claims, most of which would be coming from Poles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
• The past three decades have proved to be a mere false start for Russia because the problems of communism are still with us.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 8 June 2022
• My father was brought up with this bright idea of communism.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2017
• Later, in the Cold War, the country waged a global fight against communism.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
• Tens of thousands took to the streets across the country last year to protest the change, in perhaps the biggest show of public anger since the fall of communism.
  — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2021
• After the war, Hoover’s main obsession was the threat of communism.
  — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
• The company set up an office in Saigon to try to win the hearts and minds of Vietnamese peasants to stop the spread of communism.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• The crimes of capitalism and communism alike are blamed on Jews.
  — Andrew Doran, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
• The color red is a rallying cry to the communism that Joe Biden is spreading throughout the U.S.
  — Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2022
• The West was the free world, standing for democracy, and opposed to communism.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
• His efforts to revitalize the Soviet Union led to the collapse of communism there and the end of the Cold War.
  — Bernard McGhee, al, 31 Dec. 2022
• Many of the older generation came to the United States after the fall of Saigon, and a fear of communism runs deep.
  — Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• Hundreds of thousands have emigrated since the end of communism in the 1990s and the chaos that ensued.
  — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• The collapse of the Soviet Union and decline of communism in the early ’90s shook the political world of the right.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
• There may be no going back without the collapse of communism on the mainland.
  — Doug Bandow, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
• The waves of pagan barbarians, heresies, communism, and all the false gods.
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• The 1960s were marked by international efforts to contain the spread of communism and heightened racial pressures at home.
  — Silvia Solis, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
• In the 1930s, church leaders campaigned against FDR, which evolved into an intense suspicion of communism.
  — Erin Alberty, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024