communist
- adjective
- /ˈkɑːmjʊnɪst/
- The metro is another achievement of the Communist era, and this one can be called a success.
- Communist Party
- communist ideology
- a communist government
Like they're not just anti Castro, they're anti communist to their core because of Castro.
- Like they're not just anti Castro, they're anti communist to their core because of Castro.
- I mean, it's a fundamentally communist idea, right, Santa Claus?
- It's like New Deal with a lot of like socialist, communist pressure at the time.
- Mao complaints of the absurdity of communist troops hindering a communist revolution.
- These are ways to push super national linked to communist style agendas.
- Half the country were in the socialist or communist parties.
- They had also a four year plan, you know in the communist countries that this five year plans.
- We should be very suspicious of this communist regime.
- Hmm, that's, that's, um, that's too communist. I don't think I'll ever do that. OK,
- Communism is bad, COVID came from communist China.
Examples
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That America isn't like a communist country that doesn't let you know what's going on, and they just kill people off.
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We know that I'm scared of the communist government of China.
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Did you join a communist group?
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I came from poverty in communist Russia.
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This is Texas, not Communist Russia.
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I mean, Cuba obviously has been under communist rule for like a long time.
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We should be very suspicious of this communist regime.
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She grew up in East Germany in the days of the communist regime.
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The Chinese people's tolerance for the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party has reached an end.
Academic text (1990) -
Many people protested against the communist policies of the government.
Synonyms
Relating to a system where the state owns things and shares them among people
Antonyms
Compounds
A political party that wants a society where the state owns businesses and property
A short political book by Marx and Engels that explains ideas about workers and society
- Offensive
An insulting name for a rebel in a communist group who people say steals or uses violence
A system where the government controls what is made, how goods are shared, and their prices
- Offensive
A mocking name for a news channel people use to say it supports the political left
A communist political party that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and caused the deaths of millions
- Archaic
A government in former Yugoslavia where Serbian communist leaders rule
How Communist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Communist comes from the Latin word communis, meaning 'shared' or 'common', the same root you see in community and common. So a communist idea or policy is about things being shared by everyone and run for the whole community.