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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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But in West Bengal and Tripura - once the great bastions of Left power - the communists have been reduced to a shadow of their former self.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Some are capitalists, some are communists, but we’re all Cubans, divided by chance, circumstance and the sea.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

COINTELPRO, or the Counter Intelligence Program, targeted all the usual suspects — communists, socialists, civil rights organizations and yes, the left, with a particular focus on protest organizers.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

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

“These communists, what is it that they believe?”

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini