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communists

NOUN

card-carrying communist

Synonyms

STRONG

Bolshevik Bolshevist Commie Maoist Marxist Stalinist Trotskyite apparatchik comrade pinko red socialist sympathizer

WEAK

C.P. member Castroite Leninist Party member Viet Cong com-symp fellow traveler member of the Communist Party

Antonyms

WEAK

capitalist conservative

Example Sentences

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Brown and black coal mining employed about 100,000 people in the 1980s, when the former Czechoslovakia was ruled by Moscow-steered communists promoting heavy industry.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Deftly unraveling the tangled politics of the moment, Mr. Wallace vividly shows La Guardia juggling factions of fusionist Republicans, communists, interventionists, isolationists, Tammany pols and a rat’s nest of the city’s fierce ethnic rivalries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

He quickly rose to become a top organizer and leader in the party’s perpetual street fighting with political opponents, especially socialists and communists.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025

Lai was born in Guangzhou, a city in southern China, to a wealthy family that lost everything when the communists took power in 1949.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025

They abhorred McCarthy’s witch hunts for communists and his attacks on civil liberties.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield