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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
While the situation has begun to improve since the fall of communism, recent political action such as the 2018 Holocaust law, which threatened to punish anyone who discussed Poland’s role in the Nazi genocide, has made progress difficult.
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Olga Mecking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
In the aftermath of World War II, crimes of communism were never held to the same standard.
—Eric Patterson, National Review, 28 June 2025
While communism is the ideology of desperation, and per Lennon, starvation, its antithesis is the stuff of abundance.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
The true story takes place in the 1950s, as Murrow came under fire for criticizing Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who levied unsubstantiated charges of communism at various Americans during the Cold War.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 June 2025
With communism no longer cited as the major threat, U.S. policymakers finally welcomed Mandela and supported democratic reforms in South Africa, even though he had previously been branded a terrorist in the United States.
—Time, 22 May 2025
Evidence supporting the claim that China has tossed communism in the proverbial dustbin can be found in the growing number of businesses that have originated in China, only to expand globally.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Indeed, facing an urgent crisis, the administration of George W. Bush largely repurposed, strengthened, and expanded the existing national security state, with violent Islamist extremism standing in for communism.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2025
The latter turns on the government’s fear that Fidel Castro had given communism a New World foothold in Cuba.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
Olga Mecking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
In the aftermath of World War II, crimes of communism were never held to the same standard.
—Eric Patterson, National Review, 28 June 2025
While communism is the ideology of desperation, and per Lennon, starvation, its antithesis is the stuff of abundance.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
The true story takes place in the 1950s, as Murrow came under fire for criticizing Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who levied unsubstantiated charges of communism at various Americans during the Cold War.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 June 2025
With communism no longer cited as the major threat, U.S. policymakers finally welcomed Mandela and supported democratic reforms in South Africa, even though he had previously been branded a terrorist in the United States.
—Time, 22 May 2025
Evidence supporting the claim that China has tossed communism in the proverbial dustbin can be found in the growing number of businesses that have originated in China, only to expand globally.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Indeed, facing an urgent crisis, the administration of George W. Bush largely repurposed, strengthened, and expanded the existing national security state, with violent Islamist extremism standing in for communism.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2025
The latter turns on the government’s fear that Fidel Castro had given communism a New World foothold in Cuba.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Communism
Noun
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Even philosophies of meaning (Marxism, nationalism, utilitarianism) took on a mechanistic bent.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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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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Orwell would spend the rest of his life trying to clarify that in his time the left meant both idealists committed to human rights, equality, and justice and supporters of a Stalinism that was the antithesis of all those things.—
Rebecca Solnit
February 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2024
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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
Noun
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Like many other industrialized nations, Japan in the 1930s turned to fascism and the construction of autarkic economic empires as a solution to the instabilities engendered by capitalist modernity.—
Waiyee Loh,
JSTOR Daily,
2 July 2025
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Amid the coming-out balls, proposals and a whopper of a divorce scandal, a more insidious theme emerged: the rise of fascism in Europe, and two of the sisters’ infatuation with it.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
24 June 2025
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Together, these men of the world and men of the cloth engineered a spiritual revival designed to shake Americans free from creeping collectivism.—
James Morone,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2015
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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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“Communism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Communism. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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