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a system of government in which all goods and property are publically controlled
The year 1989 marked the fall of communism in Poland.
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Recent Examples of Communism
Evidence supporting the claim that China has tossed communism in the proverbial dustbin can be found in the growing number of businesses that have originated in China, only to expand globally.
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Indeed, facing an urgent crisis, the administration of George W. Bush largely repurposed, strengthened, and expanded the existing national security state, with violent Islamist extremism standing in for communism.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2025
The latter turns on the government’s fear that Fidel Castro had given communism a New World foothold in Cuba.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
In the aftermath of World War II, as communism and Soviet power spread abroad, the priority for American policymakers of all stripes was to defend the United States’ democracy and its way of life.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2025
French sociologists credibly calculated that communism caused 100 million deaths, including some 65 million in Communist China alone.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 10 June 2025
Advertisers invoked images of Imperial Russia rather than Soviet communism, hyping vodka's sophistication and European heritage.
—Time, 4 June 2025
While most American consumers had moved on to newer systems, Polish users in particular embraced Atari's affordable computers during the country's economic transition away from communism, creating a vibrant community that persists today.
—ArsTechnica, 3 June 2025
Johnson’s appearance, however, occurred not in the current wave of federal overreach but in May of 1935, amid a feverish preoccupation with communism in academia.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Indeed, facing an urgent crisis, the administration of George W. Bush largely repurposed, strengthened, and expanded the existing national security state, with violent Islamist extremism standing in for communism.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2025
The latter turns on the government’s fear that Fidel Castro had given communism a New World foothold in Cuba.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
In the aftermath of World War II, as communism and Soviet power spread abroad, the priority for American policymakers of all stripes was to defend the United States’ democracy and its way of life.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2025
French sociologists credibly calculated that communism caused 100 million deaths, including some 65 million in Communist China alone.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 10 June 2025
Advertisers invoked images of Imperial Russia rather than Soviet communism, hyping vodka's sophistication and European heritage.
—Time, 4 June 2025
While most American consumers had moved on to newer systems, Polish users in particular embraced Atari's affordable computers during the country's economic transition away from communism, creating a vibrant community that persists today.
—ArsTechnica, 3 June 2025
Johnson’s appearance, however, occurred not in the current wave of federal overreach but in May of 1935, amid a feverish preoccupation with communism in academia.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Communism
Noun
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Even philosophies of meaning (Marxism, nationalism, utilitarianism) took on a mechanistic bent.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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As young men and women embrace faith — along with folk songs, traditional dress and ancient tea ceremonies — some experts see it as a movement back to forms of Vietnamese identity that preceded Marxism and war.—
Damien Cave,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Orwell would spend the rest of his life trying to clarify that in his time the left meant both idealists committed to human rights, equality, and justice and supporters of a Stalinism that was the antithesis of all those things.—
Rebecca Solnit
February 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2024
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Medieval threat to democracy The rhetoric of absolving Stalinism goes hand in hand with popularizing the state’s version of the Russian Middle Ages through public media channels.—
Dina Khapaeva,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Baker reaches from Virginia’s slaveholding history to the poet Ezra Pound’s deluded post–World War II fascism to the misogynistic trolls of Gamergate in her quest to understand Unite the Right.—
Book Marks
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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Seen as a metaphor for fascism, authoritarian threats and other abuses of power, the script has experienced a resurgence recently.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Glenn Beck would’ve whipped out the chalkboard for an interpretive monologue on the dangers of collectivism.—
Matt K. Lewis,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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The internet was offering a kind of collectivism around the world.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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“Communism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Communism. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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