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 Susan, one message the Republicans have very clear is about their opponents, the Democrats, calling them communists. — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026 Joe Rogan and podcast guest Shane Gillis criticized Republicans for labeling people who want universal health care as communists. — John Wilkerson, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026 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 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

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socialists

Noun

An unstoppable wave of democratic socialists is standing up for the working class and winning because of their principled stances — not despite them.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Ideological fractures linger among Democrats Some Democratic officials worry that the rise of democratic socialists within the party presents a political problem for candidates in swing districts.

— Steve Peoples, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

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