noun
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An advocate of a society based on the common ownership of property; a proponent of communism.
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Any revolutionary or subversive radical.
adjective
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Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating communism.
Examples of communist in a Sentence
This Communist party established its own organ, the " Rude' Prdivo " (The Red Rights), in opposition to the " Pravo Lidu" (The Rights of the People), the organ of the Social Democratic party.
The Communist system eschewed political liberties in favor of economic ones.
Communist propaganda told people that everything in the West was bad.
There were prejudicesin favor of genuine Communist politics.
When then on July 21 Draskovic was murdered by a young Bosnian Communist, Parliament resolved on reprisals, and io days later passed by 190 to 54 laws of extraordinary severity for "the Defence of the State," terrorist agitation being made punishable by death, prolonged penal servitude or heavy fines.
The right of voting being confined to members of the Communist party, the Government represented by no means one really elected by universal suffrage but rather a dictatorship of the lower classes.
The mandates of the 58 Communist deputies were annulled, and eight arrested as privy to the attempt on the Regent.
October also saw factionalism develop within the Communist League.
This Manifesto has remained a kind of gospel for extreme Communists, and its pronouncements served as a guidance in the attempt of the Russian Bolsheviks (Russian for" Majority "party) to create a Communist republic in Russia.
Lissagaray, the communist, offered him a position on La Bataille, and he became a regular contributor to the advanced journals, especially to La Petite Republique, of which he became editor-inchief in 1897.
He remained in his old home during the German siege of Paris, 1870-71, but the miseries of the Communist war which followed sickened his heart, and he died in Paris on the 13th of May 1871.
Enrolled in the Hungarian army during the World War, he was a prisoner of war in Russia, when he was instructed by Lenin for the purposes of Communist propaganda, and after the collapse of the Central Powers he was sent back to Hungary with a commission to set up a Soviet Republic. From March 21 to Aug.
Verbally I was accused of being a communist agitator.
After the revolution she edited in conjunction with Karl Liebknecht the Rote Fahne, the organ of the Spartacist or Communist advocates of violent revolutionary methods.
The Social Revolutionary and the Communist parties were not legally recognized and were unrepresented.
After the suppression of the Kapp troubles and the return of the Ministry to Berlin it was impossible for Noske to remain in office, as the labour masses, who by the general strike against the Kapp " Government " had for the moment obtained a decisive influence upon affairs, regarded him as having been too tolerant of reaction in the army and as having manifested excessive ruthlessness in the suppression of the Communist bands.
His death, as well as that of his associate, Rosa Luxemburg, who perished on the same night at the hands of the soldiers or the mob, was constantly made a subject of reproach to the Government Socialists by the extreme Communist party.
In the famous Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) the theory was applied to show how the industrial revolution had replaced feudal with modern conditions.
They discussed the internal conflictsin the communist party of the Soviet Union, between Stalin and Trotsky.
That they were East European was compounded by the fact that Russia was communist and led by Joseph Stalin.
Do you think this historical context seems absent in the current debate about ' Communist guilt '?
The communist and workers' parties approved by acclamation the Declaration of Brussels and the Resolution of the Conference.
In reality, the British Communist Party rejects only one form of political adventurism for another, more hysterical form.
He remains, in his atrophied heart, a shrewd communist apparatchik.
He soon learned he had to fight against a host of culture apparatchiks determined to defend communist folk music to the bitter end.
In Russia the Communist State became the sole arbiter of all the needs of the social body.
Communist ideology has long been abandoned, but his rule remains highly authoritarian, with little political, social, media or religious freedom.
To what extent did economic problems in the communist bloc bring about the end of the Cold War?
This month is our first of two forays into the old communist bloc.
Eddie Ford argues that it is an essentially bourgeois ideology, and presents a communist analysis.
The trade union bureaucracy, including the 'left' bureaucrats supported by the Communist Party, were heavily implicated in productivity deals.
Castro's views now became more communist and Cuba fell under soviet influence.
Like the thoroughly discredited 'official communist ' PCF, these establishment parties of the left are clearly no answer for workers.
She would be the first woman to lead Germany and the first person from the formerly communist east to hold the job.
The first elections since 1975 were held during 1989, although all candidates had to be approved by the ruling communist party.
United States A new Revolution in Russia, an examination of History Resources in the post communist Russian education system.
Communist PartyCommunist Parties were mass organizations, but nevertheless minorities.
I think that the present working-class core of the German Communist Party constitutes that Marxist core which the German Communist Party needs.
At home in mother Russia the thieves began re-establishing links with the eminently corruptible communist functionaries.
The working class and the Communist Party were confronted not only by internal counterrevolution, but the intervention of 14 foreign armies.
One of them was a tall dark Russian Communist with narrow slit eyes of a semi-Asiatic.
The Congress led to mass defection from Communist Parties all over the world.
This hugely symbolic event was arguably a ritual act of public desecration which transgressed the most sacred site of communist public space.
After that I found that Civic Forum stands even more against me and against those who were fighting the communist dictatorship.
Yet Gorbachev was himself a victim of the general disarray that had overtaken the Communist system.
This is perhaps Chinas sick link to the Stalinist or state communist's tactic in jailing political dissenters.
And Jan Patocka, a Czech dissident, died during interrogation conducted by the communist regime.
The French Socialist and Communist literature was thus completely emasculated.
A special emissary from the Communist International came to China to interview Chen and bring him back to Moscow.
Sometimes this new tribalism can be a liberating thrust, as was the case when national movements overthrew the communist empire.