How to Use communism in a Sentence

communism

noun
  • 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
  • My father was brought up with this bright idea of communism.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2017
  • East Germans were freed from the dull yoke of communism.
    The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The crimes of capitalism and communism alike are blamed on Jews.
    Andrew Doran, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Roosevelt’s critics equated it to the rise of communism.
    Livia Gershon, Longreads, 22 May 2018
  • 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
  • Sounds to me like communism where some comrades dictate based on their laws how what is managed which way.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Nixon came to office with a reputation as a scourge of communism.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 9 June 2018
  • It was accused of featuring themes in support of communism at the time and the movie is certainly very much about class.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But the fall of communism stunted that plan, leaving the synagogue without a roof.
    Jonah Goldman Kay, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021
  • There’s a deep distrust of communism among many in the community.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • To get by under communism, a man must say one thing in private and something else in public.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • After the war, Hoover’s main obsession was the threat of communism.
    Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Then in his forties, the miner wanted freedom and for his country to throw off the shackles of communism.
    Amanda Coakley/budapest, Time, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Some referred to the statement as communism or Marxism.
    Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 26 May 2021
  • But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people.
    Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 15 July 2018
  • One recalls the decades when transatlantic allies stood against communism.
    Jonathan Tamari, Philly.com, 10 June 2018
  • The waves of pagan barbarians, heresies, communism, and all the false gods.
    Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • His story was largely buried for decades but resurfaced when communism fell.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The West was the free world, standing for democracy, and opposed to communism.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The idea was always the same: keep communism at bay by whatever means possible.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Later, in the Cold War, the country waged a global fight against communism.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But with the fall of communism, these forests were opened up to the European market and to global exploitation.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Grimes may be dating the richest man on the planet, but that doesn’t stop the musician from thinking about communism.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 3 June 2021
  • Wojtyla lived to help bring about and see the overthrow of European communism.
    M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
  • This show is more about mental states – what the mental state puts a monarchy together or communism and why those things fail.
    Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Since then the record has been mixed, but several broad trends are evident and hard to imagine had communism not collapsed.
    John J Stremlau, Quartz Africa, 8 Nov. 2019

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