Synonyms of communists

communists

noun

plural of communist

as in socialists

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• socialists
• comrades
• Marxists
• Reds
• commies
• Bolsheviks
• revolutionaries
• leftists
• radicals
• Stalinists
• Trotskyites
• Trotskyists
• lefties
• Leninists
• Maoists
• extremists
• pinks
• pinkos
• social democrats
• revolutionists
• Leninites

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• capitalists

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of communists

Republicans who claim that democratic socialists are like communists are either misinformed or deliberately using misleading rhetoric for political advantage. — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2026

The communists want to turn America into a Third World country, into a hellhole of crime and filth. — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026

Republicans see an opportunity here, portraying progressive and socialist Democrats as lunatics and communists. — ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026

The John Birch Society, an organization that also alleged that communists were behind the Civil Rights Movement, agreed. — Aaron Coy Moulton, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026

Yet, in America hard core cadres of extreme, violence-friendly leftists, who are communists in all but name, are poised to gain control of the Democratic Party. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

But as left-leaning Democrats and democratic socialists like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, score wins in local and national races, Republicans have repeatedly decried the party’s progressive wing as communists devoid of religion. — Krysta Fauria, Fortune, 31 July 2026

By then, even Sartre had lost his enthusiasm for the USSR and had broken with the doctrinaire French communists. — Literary Hub, 21 July 2026

The shift has become a lightning rod for Republicans, who are aggressively branding Democrats as communists. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 17 July 2026