"communist" | Definition and Related Words

Adjective

Relating to or marked by communism (synset 302886180)
"Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda"

same as: communistic

Noun

A member of the communist party (synset 109965082)
is a type of: pol, political leader, politician, politico - a person active in party politics

belongs to: communist party - a political party that actively advocates a communist form of government; in Communist countries it is the sole political party of the state
A socialist who advocates communism (synset 109964798)
is a type of: socialist - a political advocate of socialism
subtypes:
- apparatchik - a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party
- bolshevik, bolshevist - a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party
- comrade - a fellow member of the Communist Party
- revisionist - a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
specific instances:
- mao, mao tsetung, mao zedong - Chinese communist leader (1893-1976)
- john reed, reed - United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
- iosif vissarionovich dzhugashvili, joseph stalin, stalin - Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
- chou en-lai, zhou en-lai - Chinese revolutionary and communist leader (1898-1976)
same as: commie