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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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.
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Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
After the war the rise of McCarthyism in the 1950s made being a card-carrying communist a problem socially if not legally.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2025
In the 1950s, the FBI under Director J. Edgar Hoover created the counter-intelligence programs COINTELPRO, allegedly for investigating communists and radical political groups, and the Ghetto Informant Program.
—Brittany Friedman, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2025
Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
After the war the rise of McCarthyism in the 1950s made being a card-carrying communist a problem socially if not legally.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2025
In the 1950s, the FBI under Director J. Edgar Hoover created the counter-intelligence programs COINTELPRO, allegedly for investigating communists and radical political groups, and the Ghetto Informant Program.
—Brittany Friedman, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2025
Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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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,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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But America’s regulated economy and social safety net didn’t just materialize after an invasion of socialists from Mars.—
Mark Green,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Communist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/communist. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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