COMMUNISM Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

Communism

noun

Definition of Communism

as in Marxism

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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One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.

— Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?

— Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 13 July 2025

Definition of Marxism

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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
This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.

— Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025

Definition of Stalinism

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Voters have already handed a good chunk of democracy itself over to nationalist, religious and ideological fascism.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
The Soviet experience, on top of the rise of fascism, reminded my generation rather forcibly that man was, indeed, imperfect, and that the corruptions of power could unleash great evil in the world.

— David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of fascism

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In the parlance of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which Mamdani is a member, collectivism is a good thing.

— Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
Later, from the stage, both Thompson and Julia Roberts urged collectivism while recounting the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti—two 37-year-old American citizens who were both fatally shot this January by federal immigration agents.

— Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026

Definition of collectivism

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