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Communist   /kˈɑmjənəst/   Listen
noun
Communist  n.  
1.
An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.
2.
A supporter of the commune of Paris.






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"Communist" Quotes from Famous Books



... Socialism were interchangeable at that period, e.g. the "Manifesto of the Communist Party," by Karl ...
— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease

... arched door of an enclosure; he must kneel and bow his head to creep through—and thus the rich man must humble himself. See how a false translation spoils a good metaphor, and turns a familiar simile into a ferociously communist sentiment. I expect Henry and Janet here in four or five days when her ancle allows her to travel. If I get a house at Thebes, I will only hire a boat up and dismiss it, and trust to Allah for my return. There are rumours of troubles at Jeddah, and a sort of expectation ...
— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon

... of mutual aid and support did not die out in the masses, it continued to flow even after that defeat. It rose up again with a formidable force, in answer to the communist appeals of the first propagandists of the reform, and it continued to exist even after the masses, having failed to realize the life which they hoped to inaugurate under the inspiration of a reformed religion, fell under the ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin

... capitalist reform predicted by Socialists since the Communist Manifesto (1847) is nationalization or municipalization of the ground rent or unearned increment of land. At first Kautsky and others were inclined to expect that nothing would be done in this direction until the working classes themselves achieved political power, ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling

... character, and especially so after the weakening of his social philosophy. The aloofness of the Overman, the individualistic teachings of Zarathustra, appealed to the anti-social Terry, to the man who more and more went back to his egotistic personality, to whom more and more the "communist" Christian anarchists made little appeal, who more and more became what is called an individualist anarchist, with whom there is little possibility of relationship, who is essentially anti-social, whose philosophy is really that of social destruction. This indeed is the anarchist ...
— An Anarchist Woman • Hutchins Hapgood


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