as in socialist
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
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Recent Examples of communist
Into the mural, Rivera, a communist, painted a portrait Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Trepper, a Polish-Jewish communist, ran a network of Soviet spies across Western Europe, named by the Germans as the Red Orchestra, from the mid-1930s until 1942, when he was captured by the Gestapo and then escaped.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
The idea of Barrett as a communist, or anything remotely close to it, is untethered from reality.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
First came Witness by the American journalist Whittaker Chambers, a former communist and Soviet spy who eventually broke with the party and became a political conservative.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Trepper, a Polish-Jewish communist, ran a network of Soviet spies across Western Europe, named by the Germans as the Red Orchestra, from the mid-1930s until 1942, when he was captured by the Gestapo and then escaped.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
The idea of Barrett as a communist, or anything remotely close to it, is untethered from reality.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
First came Witness by the American journalist Whittaker Chambers, a former communist and Soviet spy who eventually broke with the party and became a political conservative.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for communist
socialist
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That was demonstrated on the night before Newsom’s announcement when Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — two East Coast democratic socialists — attracted nearly 30,000 people at an anti-Trump rally in a Republican congressional district near Sacramento.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Many in the audience also came to hear Ocasio-Cortez, 35, a sharp, politically savvy Democratic socialist once at the fringes of the Democratic Party who is now broadening her national appeal.—
Laura J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Communist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/communist. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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