communist
communist
nounDefinition of COMMUNIST
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>
Related Words leftist, lefty, pink, pinko, social democrat; Bolshevik, Leninist, Leninite, Maoist, Marxist, Stalinist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite; extremist, radical, revolutionary, revolutionist
Antonyms capitalist
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