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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And yet—there is also the Ginsberg who went to Cuba in 1965 to agitate for gay liberation against the homophobic Castro regime, where despite the poet’s own (kind of) Marxism he was expelled.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
In the film, Sonny’s furious tinpot Marxism is part of his skewed reality.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026

Definition of Marxism

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Like Stalinism or the Khmer Rouge, anti-Zionism represents a wrong turn for the left.

— Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
Until Hoxha's break with Nikita Khrushchev's USSR, after the abjuration of Stalinism, Sazan was in Soviet hands, a thorn in the side of the West, a base for 12 Whiskey-class submarines and of chemical-biological weapons plants.

— Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026

Definition of Stalinism

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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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