Noun 1. Communist - a member of the communist party

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
pol, political leader, politico, politician - a person active in party politics

2. communist - a socialist who advocates communism

commie

Bolshevist, Bolshevik - 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

socialist - a political advocate of socialism

Mao Tsetung, Mao Zedong, Mao - 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)

Adj. 1. communist - relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda"

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