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 Taiwan has controlled the Kinmen and Matsu islands, which lie just off the Chinese coast, since the Republic of China government fled to Taipei in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong’s communists. — Reuters, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026 Republicans who claim that democratic socialists are like communists are either misinformed or deliberately using misleading rhetoric for political advantage. — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2026 The communists want to turn America into a Third World country, into a hellhole of crime and filth. — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026 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

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socialists

Noun

Piker, a socialist online personality and surrogate for socialists running this cycle, is facing condemnation and fresh accusations of antisemitism for saying Jewish Americans are inviting violence upon themselves for supporting Israel.

— Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2026
The Democratic socialists winning these races is one of the few things that is going in Republicans’ favor in this general election.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026

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