COMMUNIST Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

communist

noun

ˈkäm-yə-nist

as in socialist

an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state communists were plotting an overthrow of the government

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Recent Examples on the Web Exiled From the Airwaves The consensus of the corporate executives running the new consensus medium in postwar America was that communists should not be seen on it. —

Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024 The communists took power in Beijing and founded the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949, while the defeated nationalists fled to Taiwan, moving the seat of the Republic of China from the mainland to Taipei. —

Nectar Gan, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024 Advertisement World & Nation Trump calls Harris a Marxist, a communist, even a fascist. —

Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024 There were Mao's Cultural Revolution in China, Stalin's political repression in the Soviet Union, and the Red Scare and Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt in the United States. —

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