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

Speakers blasted the opposing party as socialists and communists in speech after speech. — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2026

The event cast Democrats as too left wing, describing them as communists, anti-American or even evil. — Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026

Susan, one message the Republicans have very clear is about their opponents, the Democrats, calling them communists. — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026

Joe Rogan and podcast guest Shane Gillis criticized Republicans for labeling people who want universal health care as communists. — John Wilkerson, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026

Taiwan has controlled the Kinmen and Matsu islands, which lie just off the Chinese coast, since the Republic of China government fled to Taipei in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists. — Reuters, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026

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

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