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communist [ˈkɒmjʊnɪst] n 1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a supporter of any form of communism 2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (often capital) a supporter of Communism or a Communist movement or state 3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (often capital) a member of a Communist party 4. (Sociology) a person who practises communal living; communalist 5. (Historical Terms) another name for Communard adj
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) of, characterized by, favouring, or relating to communism; communistic ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
communist noun (often cap.) socialist, Red (informal), Marxist, Bolshevik, collectivist Its leader is a former Communist who joined the dissident movement in 1989. Quotations "What is a communist? One who hath yearnings" "For equal division of unequal earnings" [Ebenezer Elliot Epigram] Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The vile Laws of Supply and Demand shall find labor scarce in that agricultural district; and pitiless Political Economy shall spend a few extra shillings on the poor, as certainly as I am that Radical, Communist, and Incendiary--Julian Gray If Napoleon the First had stood in the shoes of Louis XVI that day, instead of being merely a casual and unknown looker-on, there would be no Lion of Lucerne, now, but there would be a well-stocked Communist graveyard in Paris which would answer just as well to remember the 10th of August by. There were a dozen requests for autographs - he knew them at sight; there were professional begging letters; and there were letters from cranks, ranging from the man with a working model of perpetual motion, and the man who demonstrated that the surface of the earth was the inside of a hollow sphere, to the man seeking financial aid to purchase the Peninsula of Lower California for the purpose of communist colonization. |
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