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
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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
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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
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The questions and solutions change with every performance, ranging from Masli making difficult phone calls on an audience member’s behalf, recovering a long-missing recipe, finding the name of an old song or ending global fascism.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
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There are so many good folks who are carving out community and lifting each other up in the face of fascism.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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The packet that Bruce assembled for the Social Security competition stressed that government support shored up the traditional family the way that pioneering families had helped one another; the effect was to associate the new policy with the American frontier, rather than radical collectivism.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
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The record might be considered the third in a trilogy exploring the importance of community, collectivism, and solidarity, in both joy and defiance.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Communism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Communism. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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