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COMMIE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A socialist who advocates communism
Synonyms:
commie; communist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("commie" is a kind of...):
socialist (a political advocate of socialism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commie"):
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)
Instance hyponyms:
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))
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