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a system of government in which all goods and property are publically controlled
The year 1989 marked the fall of communism in Poland.
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Recent Examples of Communism
Finally, the advance of communism helped generate the Cold War.
Dedication and discipline of earlier U.S. leaders were crucial to ultimate victory in the World Wars and the Cold War.
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Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
Today, the Trump administration is citing the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, a restrictive measure written by nativist members of Congress decades ago when fears of communism were rampant, to sharply restrict the rights of noncitizens.
—Daniel Tichenor, The Conversation, 15 July 2025
Economic freedom in Poland, of course, grew following the fall of communism and jumped again in the 2010s before being negatively impacted by COVID policies.
—Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
During the McCarthy era, the senator used the country’s fear of the spread of communism to label political foes in government, education and entertainment as communists or communist sympathizers.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
While the situation has begun to improve since the fall of communism, recent political action such as the 2018 Holocaust law, which threatened to punish anyone who discussed Poland’s role in the Nazi genocide, has made progress difficult.
—Olga Mecking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
In the aftermath of World War II, crimes of communism were never held to the same standard.
—Eric Patterson, National Review, 28 June 2025
While communism is the ideology of desperation, and per Lennon, starvation, its antithesis is the stuff of abundance.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
The true story takes place in the 1950s, as Murrow came under fire for criticizing Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who levied unsubstantiated charges of communism at various Americans during the Cold War.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 June 2025
Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
Today, the Trump administration is citing the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, a restrictive measure written by nativist members of Congress decades ago when fears of communism were rampant, to sharply restrict the rights of noncitizens.
—Daniel Tichenor, The Conversation, 15 July 2025
Economic freedom in Poland, of course, grew following the fall of communism and jumped again in the 2010s before being negatively impacted by COVID policies.
—Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
During the McCarthy era, the senator used the country’s fear of the spread of communism to label political foes in government, education and entertainment as communists or communist sympathizers.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
While the situation has begun to improve since the fall of communism, recent political action such as the 2018 Holocaust law, which threatened to punish anyone who discussed Poland’s role in the Nazi genocide, has made progress difficult.
—Olga Mecking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
In the aftermath of World War II, crimes of communism were never held to the same standard.
—Eric Patterson, National Review, 28 June 2025
While communism is the ideology of desperation, and per Lennon, starvation, its antithesis is the stuff of abundance.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
The true story takes place in the 1950s, as Murrow came under fire for criticizing Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who levied unsubstantiated charges of communism at various Americans during the Cold War.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Communism
Noun
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One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.—
Mike Dunleavy,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
13 July 2025
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Orwell would spend the rest of his life trying to clarify that in his time the left meant both idealists committed to human rights, equality, and justice and supporters of a Stalinism that was the antithesis of all those things.—
Rebecca Solnit
February 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2024
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Medieval threat to democracy The rhetoric of absolving Stalinism goes hand in hand with popularizing the state’s version of the Russian Middle Ages through public media channels.—
Dina Khapaeva,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
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Like many other industrialized nations, Japan in the 1930s turned to fascism and the construction of autarkic economic empires as a solution to the instabilities engendered by capitalist modernity.—
Waiyee Loh,
JSTOR Daily,
2 July 2025
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Amid the coming-out balls, proposals and a whopper of a divorce scandal, a more insidious theme emerged: the rise of fascism in Europe, and two of the sisters’ infatuation with it.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
24 June 2025
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Together, these men of the world and men of the cloth engineered a spiritual revival designed to shake Americans free from creeping collectivism.—
James Morone,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2015
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Glenn Beck would’ve whipped out the chalkboard for an interpretive monologue on the dangers of collectivism.—
Matt K. Lewis,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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“Communism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Communism. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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