as in Marxism
a system of government in which all goods and property are publically controlled
The year 1989 marked the fall of communism in Poland.
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Recent Examples of Communism
He was kind of inspired by a lot of the best of communism, the best of socialism, the idealism, the hope.
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Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
And Johnson’s liberalism became wedded to the war in Vietnam, where by 1969 more than 500,000 Americans were fighting to protect liberalism from the supposedly creeping arms of communism.
—Kevin M. Schultz, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
Continue reading … -- POLITICS PRESIDENTIAL PAIR – White House-Vatican relationship stretches a century, including fighting communism.
—FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025
None of the teachers who were fired ever taught communism in their classes.
—Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
The comedian last week spoke of his plans for the dinner, comparing it to then-President Nixon’s (R) historic trip to China in 1972 despite being an ardent opponent of communism.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
Budget hawks and an emergent wave of neoliberal politicians and economists had, for years, decried wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars in foreign nations that were often working with or were friendly toward the Soviet Union and communism.
—Time, 12 May 2025
Who had played a big role in bringing down communism in his homeland of Poland and elsewhere.
—Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Within all that—and of more interest to me—is fascinating context about the interplay between democracy, fascism, communism, and religion in twentieth-century Europe, exemplified by one incredible sequence about Pope John Paul II’s 1979 visit to Communist Poland.
—Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2025
Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
And Johnson’s liberalism became wedded to the war in Vietnam, where by 1969 more than 500,000 Americans were fighting to protect liberalism from the supposedly creeping arms of communism.
—Kevin M. Schultz, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
Continue reading … -- POLITICS PRESIDENTIAL PAIR – White House-Vatican relationship stretches a century, including fighting communism.
—FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2025
None of the teachers who were fired ever taught communism in their classes.
—Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
The comedian last week spoke of his plans for the dinner, comparing it to then-President Nixon’s (R) historic trip to China in 1972 despite being an ardent opponent of communism.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
Budget hawks and an emergent wave of neoliberal politicians and economists had, for years, decried wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars in foreign nations that were often working with or were friendly toward the Soviet Union and communism.
—Time, 12 May 2025
Who had played a big role in bringing down communism in his homeland of Poland and elsewhere.
—Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Within all that—and of more interest to me—is fascinating context about the interplay between democracy, fascism, communism, and religion in twentieth-century Europe, exemplified by one incredible sequence about Pope John Paul II’s 1979 visit to Communist Poland.
—Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Communism
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As young men and women embrace faith — along with folk songs, traditional dress and ancient tea ceremonies — some experts see it as a movement back to forms of Vietnamese identity that preceded Marxism and war.—
Damien Cave,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Value-form theory, as it’s often called, pays less attention than prior incarnations of Marxism did to the fission between labor and capital contained in the atom of the capitalist commodity, and stresses instead that both capitalists and workers must obey the same remorseless economic law.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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Medieval threat to democracy The rhetoric of absolving Stalinism goes hand in hand with popularizing the state’s version of the Russian Middle Ages through public media channels.—
Dina Khapaeva,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
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This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.—
Anatol Lieven,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, The Director, documents the little compromises that led G. W. Pabst, like millions of other people, to accept fascism.—
Susan Neiman,
The New York Review of Books,
22 May 2025
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Jews tend to teach their children to be wary of fascism from a very young age, with its nationalist bombast, its cult of masculinity, its contempt for pluralism and its relentless, bludgeoning lies.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
21 May 2025
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Glenn Beck would’ve whipped out the chalkboard for an interpretive monologue on the dangers of collectivism.—
Matt K. Lewis,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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The internet was offering a kind of collectivism around the world.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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“Communism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Communism. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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