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
Two Prosecutors, his adaptation of Georgy Demidov’s eponymous novel, is set in the Soviet Union in 1937 during Stalin’s Great Purge and tells the story of a young local prosecutor and dedicated communist who starts to question his undying faith in the regime.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2025
Inspired by the Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War, Jessica became a communist and, later, a journalist.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
Peasants rose up against the authorities, socialists and communists proliferated, and the government used horrific violence to control the populace.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Immigrants that fled a communist country, for example, might believe the MAGA-GOP's falsehood that Democrats are socialists or communists and worry about it.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2025
Inspired by the Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War, Jessica became a communist and, later, a journalist.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
Peasants rose up against the authorities, socialists and communists proliferated, and the government used horrific violence to control the populace.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Immigrants that fled a communist country, for example, might believe the MAGA-GOP's falsehood that Democrats are socialists or communists and worry about it.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for communist
socialist
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Democratic socialists are winning primaries, but live-action Stitch is winning at the box office and letting Lilo go into foster care.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
28 July 2025
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The attention given to whether Mamdani is a socialist of some kind is a wake-up call to observers and citizens to look more carefully at questions about political economy and the language that is used by candidates, the media and pundits.—
Dave Anderson,
Baltimore Sun,
27 July 2025
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“Communist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/communist. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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