English > communist: 3 senses > noun 2, person Meaning | A socialist who advocates communism / communism. |
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Synonym | commie |
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Instances | Mao, Mao Zedong, Mao Tsetung | Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) |
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Reed, John Reed | United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917 |
Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) |
Zhou En-lai, Chou En-lai | Chinese revolutionary and communist leader (1898-1976) |
Narrower | Bolshevik, Bolshevist | A Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party |
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Comrade | A fellow member of the Communist Party |
apparatchik | A communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party |
revisionist | A Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position |
Broader | socialist | A political advocate of socialism / socialism |
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Spanish | comunista, rojo |
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Catalan | comunista, roig |
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Nouns | communism | a political theory favoring / favoring collectivism in a classless society |
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communism | a form of socialism / socialism that abolishes private ownership |