COMMUNISTS Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

communists

noun

plural of communist

as in socialists

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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Recent Examples of communists Republicans see an opportunity here, portraying progressive and socialist Democrats as lunatics and communists. — ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026 The John Birch Society, an organization that also alleged that communists were behind the Civil Rights Movement, agreed. — Aaron Coy Moulton, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026 Yet, in America hard core cadres of extreme, violence-friendly leftists, who are communists in all but name, are poised to gain control of the Democratic Party. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 But as left-leaning Democrats and democratic socialists like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, score wins in local and national races, Republicans have repeatedly decried the party’s progressive wing as communists devoid of religion. — Krysta Fauria, Fortune, 31 July 2026 By then, even Sartre had lost his enthusiasm for the USSR and had broken with the doctrinaire French communists. — Literary Hub, 21 July 2026 The shift has become a lightning rod for Republicans, who are aggressively branding Democrats as communists. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 17 July 2026 Now, none of the Democratic socialists who are on the ballot identify as communists. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 14 July 2026 To be clear, the Democratic Party has not been taken over by communists. — Nik Popli, Time, 13 July 2026

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socialists

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In New York and elsewhere, socialists have also performed well, startling establishment figures who favor more traditional positions on capitalist economic policies, among other issues.

— Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2026
Those victories are expanding into swing states such as Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed ‒ a progressive backed by prominent democratic socialists, but not one himself ‒ prevailed in the Senate primary over a more moderate opponent.

— Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026

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