How to Use communism in a Sentence

communism

noun
  • Trump is not your last stand against the deep state against communism.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Nor, for that matter, is his view of communism.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In the East side of Berlin, the scars of communism are still deep.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The monarchy faced threats from communism on the left and fascism on the right.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2021
  • This isn’t just about communism anymore.
    — John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
  • None of the teachers who were fired ever taught communism in their classes.
    — Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • There may be no going back without the collapse of communism on the mainland.
    — Doug Bandow, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Who had played a big role in bringing down communism in his homeland of Poland and elsewhere.
    — Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • And Marxism, communism and socialism were all, to those on the right, part of that same soup.
    — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The crimes of capitalism and communism alike are blamed on Jews.
    — Andrew Doran, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • In days past, saying that communism was a mistake would have earned the artist a one-way ticket to Siberia.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • After the war, Hoover’s main obsession was the threat of communism.
    — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The past three decades have proved to be a mere false start for Russia because the problems of communism are still with us.
    — Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • The waves of pagan barbarians, heresies, communism, and all the false gods.
    — Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • He was kind of inspired by a lot of the best of communism, the best of socialism, the idealism, the hope.
    — Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • Has your system of communism failed the people of Cuba?
    — NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
  • What destabilizes that wing of the party is the Cold War and the threat of communism.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
  • How does a man go from hating communism, to having to deal, to having to sit and be face-to-face with a communist?
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • While a portion of those who came to Spain were aligned with Soviet communism, most were not.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Later, in the Cold War, the country waged a global fight against communism.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The West was the free world, standing for democracy, and opposed to communism.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • No more communism, or fascism; no more theocracy, or monarchies.
    — Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And our ultimate goal has to be the complete upheaval of communism taking back our country.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • Puhoi, like all villages in Moldova, has changed a lot since the fall of communism in 1991.
    — Madeline Roache / Puhoi, Time, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Tens of thousands took to the streets across the country last year to protest the change, in perhaps the biggest show of public anger since the fall of communism.
    — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Well, that was what America’s leaders had to do to fight communism and terrorism.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026
  • That game was hockey, but the riding on the outcome was the American way versus communism.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Many of the young men and women who have taken to the streets were born after 1992, the fall of communism in the country.
    — Alessia Arcolaci, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
  • This song is a letter from Randy to Karl Marx, explaining to him the failures of communism.
    — Nick Williams, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The end of communism in 1989 opened the door to restitution claims, most of which would be coming from Poles.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021

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