communism - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • defeat: It took a long protracted Cold War to defeat communism, a war against enemies who sought to overpower a way of life.
  • fight: The US wanted the media there to show them fighting Communism.
  • spread: We must spread Communism in the parliaments, in the trades unions and in the Party organizations.
  • want: Why join the CPGB if you do not want communism?
  • promote: Education was vital both to eradicate illiteracy and to promote Communism.
  • think: I wouldn't mind asking Lenin if he really thought communism would work in practice.

Preposition: in

  • 1990s: The espionage, or spying, threat did not end with the collapse of Soviet communism in the early 1990s.

Adjective modifier

  • 'official: Most of the representatives of mainstream 'official communism ' have little to offer in the face of the challenges presented by the EU.
  • Soviet: With the demise of Soviet communism, however, the entire movement was dealt a decisive blow.
  • Stalinist: For instance, the followers of Stalinist communism were confronted by this dilemma at the end of the 1980s.
  • primitive: Primitive communism is negated by the exploitation of man by man.
  • Russian: As with 20th-century Russian communism, it also lays claims to a monopoly on world views and remains intolerant of competition.

Modifies a noun

  • cannot: Marx's concept of communism cannot be separated from his description of the estranged life which we live today.
  • today: Return to Article Index The Specter of Communism: Communism Today The Manifesto of the Communist Party was published 150 years ago this month.

Noun used with modifier

  • anarchist: Anarchist Communism in Britain Anarchist Communism in Britain Armstrong, Alan All Hail, the Scottish Workers ' Republic!
  • war: Trotsky attributed two aspects to " war communism " .
  • world: Permanent Revolution was Leon Trotsky's belief for the future of world communism.
  • state: The evils natural to state communism have been increased ten-fold under the pretext that all our misery is due to foreign intervention.

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