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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Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the U.S. government persecuted people of being communists.
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Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff/Getty On Thursday, Elon Musk agreed with the leader of a far-right German political party that Adolf Hitler was a communist and that left-wing groups who support Palestinian causes have more in common with Nazis than with her own party.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
Image In so many ways, Jan. 6 had become part of his brand — a brand in which an attack on the symbol of American democracy became a defense of that same democracy: a blow against political thugs and closet communists, deep-state plots and an unjust justice system.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Qin’s father was a watchmaker servicing the Omegas and Rolexes of China’s communist elites during the 1960s and 70s, and Qin went on to teach himself watchmaking, even building special tools and machines to refine the finishing.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2024
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Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff/Getty On Thursday, Elon Musk agreed with the leader of a far-right German political party that Adolf Hitler was a communist and that left-wing groups who support Palestinian causes have more in common with Nazis than with her own party.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
Image In so many ways, Jan. 6 had become part of his brand — a brand in which an attack on the symbol of American democracy became a defense of that same democracy: a blow against political thugs and closet communists, deep-state plots and an unjust justice system.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Qin’s father was a watchmaker servicing the Omegas and Rolexes of China’s communist elites during the 1960s and 70s, and Qin went on to teach himself watchmaking, even building special tools and machines to refine the finishing.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Communist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/communist. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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