as in socialist
an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
communists were plotting an overthrow of the government
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The left always chooses career violent criminals and/or drug addicts as their heroes & martyrs, and communists anarchist like AOC blow the dog whistle.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
The group was founded as the Vitez Order in 1920 as a Hungarian nationalist group that contested the country’s communist rule, and is now recognized as a far-right group with antisemitic views.
—Ty Roush, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
Critics on the left—social democrats and communists—ridiculed fascism as homosexual.
—Christopher Ewing / Made By History, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
Communist governments scared them enough, but communists with acid?
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
The group was founded as the Vitez Order in 1920 as a Hungarian nationalist group that contested the country’s communist rule, and is now recognized as a far-right group with antisemitic views.
—Ty Roush, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
Critics on the left—social democrats and communists—ridiculed fascism as homosexual.
—Christopher Ewing / Made By History, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
Communist governments scared them enough, but communists with acid?
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Communist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/communist. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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