enemy of the people

enemy of the people (plural enemies of the people)

Calque of Latin hostis publicus (compare public enemy).

The NKVD organs . . . could extend the category of ‘enemy of the people’ to everyone who dared to utter a word of criticism.

1968, Robert Conquest, quoting Wladislaw Gomulka, “The Foreign Element”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 427:

(typically socialism or communism) A political or class opponent of the subgroup in power within a larger group.

عَدُوُّ الشَّعْبِ

a political or class opponent of the subgroup in power within a larger group


commiecrat

Blend of commie + Democrat. Equivalent to commie + -crat.

In any case, whenever I hear a Commiecrat whine about "facts", I just have to laugh.

2001 November 8, The Captain, “Mineta! What a joke! administration puppet!”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

The Demunists are caught between having to appear sane and reasonable and having to appease their Commiecrat core elements, which have taken over the party since the 1970's. The Demunist Commiecrats are melting down, and the reasonable Democrats (Zell Miller of GA is the only one who comes to mind at the moment), are breaking ranks.

2002 September 28, Nicholas Byram, “Hugh Hewitt: Commiecrat Meltdown!”, in alt.politics.usa.republicans (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

LOL! Peer reviewed journal results, that explains global warming, and all this commiecrat asshole has is some really LAME propaganda about carbon dioxide that he is trying to use to shut down the American economy and ruin the greatest capitalist nation on earth!

2003 November 30, Stuart Grey, “SCIENTISTS WARN: "SUDDEN" CLIMATE CHANGE POSSIBLE”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A Democrat, especially one perceived as being a communist.


red fascism

The mad march of Red fascism is a cause for concern in America.

1947, J. Edgar Hoover, Investigation of Un-American propaganda activities in the United States: Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1884 and H.R. 2122, Bills to curb or outlaw the Communist Party of the United States. Part 2. Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. March 26, 1947., Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 37:

Sandra: And the lad who said Joe Stalin was a fascist was right. That's why they called it Red Fascism.

1997 October 16, Sandra Mendoza, “Starship Troopers - NEW MOVIE PICS”, in rec.arts.movies.current-films (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

> > Where have you been for the last 40 years ?
> Obviously in some dimension that runs parallel to your own. Perhaps you should return to yours, and your statement might be greeted with a little less incredulity...
By apologists for red fascism you mean.

1999 March 15, Harry Delaney, “Recognize Castro for what he is / MARCUS GEE, The Globe and Mail, Canada”, in can.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

Red fascism is fascism and if facism is wrong, Communism is doubly so.

2000 February 4, Dirk Mittler, “Naive statements in Montreal.”, in soc.rights.human (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

The East Germans were Hitler's children in a very real sense. They went from blue fascism to red fascism without a glimpse or memory of freedom.

2004 July 23, Robert J. Kolker, “what's wrong with eastern germans?”, in sci.econ (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:


red fascist

who gives a shit for the inner porno-stories of the red fascist clans

2000 June 5, constantin, “SWP gossip”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

Man are you stupid, you just keep right on believing in your Red Fascist leader Camp-Bull-Lies, I'm sure you could be used as his door mat, for his BC women's Justice Network you goof....

2002 June 5, The X Man, “Extreme?”, in van.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

I don't believe you are that stupid. It must be your red fascist reality bending agenda at work.

2008 March 20, Svenne, “'Taliban warn of attacks if Dutch film is shown '”, in aus.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:


campist

(derogatory, politics, socialism, slang) A leftist who supports any country/organization simply for being opposed to the United States or the West, including authoritarian governments who would otherwise not follow leftist beliefs.


Bolschevism

The "Frikorps" was one of the units raised to fight Bolschevism from the occupied countries - and it seems that only about 20% of the volunteers were Nazis.

1996 May 1, Carl Alex Friis Nielsen, “Resistance to German Onslaught 1939-40”, in soc.history.war.world-war-ii (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.

1997 August 10, mclane, “Chess Analysis Software”, in rec.games.chess.computer (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

W4NTI last week posted that Jews are communists and I tried to get through to the radical by explaining that, to Jews there, very early Bolschevism in Russia represented an escape from Tzarist persecutions and pogroms. Who knows if he caught on?

2001 August 7, radiosigs, “Praise be Jesus, it's the Catholics again!”, in alt.radio.scanner.flame_fest (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

I highly recommend Donna Kossy's "Strange Creations" for a very interesting summary of fringe views on the origins of human beings, including those which fed into Naziism and Bolschevism.

2004 July 1, EjP, “Darwin Contribute to Holocaust?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of Bolshevism.


patsoc

(communism, Internet slang) A supporter of socialist patriotism.

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory) A Marxist-Leninist who supports chauvinist positions.


patsoc

(communism, Internet slang) Supporting socialist patriotism.

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory) Supporting Marxism-Leninism but also chauvinist positions


Communist News Network

Blend of Communist + Cable News Network.

CNN AKA The Communist News Network ran results of a survey showing the percentage of Juveniles that owned firearms. So who else other than Communists hell bent on taking away firearms from law abiding citizens would care.

1998 October 15, WM, “Communist News Network”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:

Not again! The Communist News Network gets caught in another lie.

2003 June 8, Alvin Valkenheiser, “The Communist News Network gets caught in another lie.”, in ny.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:

Interesting that even the Communist News Network can't even get its own quotes right, isn't it? You'd expect them to take other agencies out of context and jump up and down, but to take their own???

2008 October 23, Steele, “An interesting news Item on the Communist News Network”, in alabama.shoals.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:


people's war

(military) A Maoist military strategy where the basic concept is to maintain the support of the population and draw the enemy deep into the countryside where the population will bleed them dry through a mix of mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare.


political commissar

en-noun

political commissar (plural political commissars)

(communism, military) A supervisory political officer responsible for ideological education and organization.


Tsedenbalism

Borrowed from Mongolian цэдэнбализм (cedenbalizm). By surface analysis, Tsedenbal + -ism.

bor+

(communism, historical) The communist ideology espoused by former Mongolian leader Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal.


Spartacide

(historical) Synonym of Spartacist (“a member of the Spartacus League in Germany”)


Maoistic

en-adj

Maoistic (comparative more Maoistic, superlative most Maoistic)

more Maoistic (comparative)
most Maoistic (superlative)


central committee

en-noun

central committee (plural central committees)

The four-day, closed-door meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist party (CCP) central committee, known as the sixth plenum, is expected to produce a resolution on the history of the party, which analysts say will shape domestic politics and society for decades to come.

2021 November 8, Vincent Ni, Helen Davidson, “Summit of political elite opens in China as Xi eyes extraordinary third term”, in The Guardian:

(communism) A standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states.


para-communism

From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + communism.

prefix

In a later section we must examine communism as a world force, but here it is to be observed that just as Chinese democracy is not the same thing as Western democracy but a para-democracy, so Chinese communism is not by any means the Russian article, but a para-communism.

1939, H. G. Wells, “The Chinese Outlook”, in The Fate of Man (Essay Index Reprint Series), Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 182:

It was Chiang who, on the advice of Borodin and his numerous Russian assistants, gave the Kuomintang (National People's Party) a definite Communist tinge and an organization akin to that of the Soviet Communist Party and the party cells. Kuomintang was consequently described by some observers as a kind of para-communism.

1968, W. Petro, Triple Commission, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 96:

Indeed, at the heart of the allergy of communism and para-communism to the environmental cause is the Marxist heritage which, in this area, was carefully preserved by Lenin and his successors.

2022, Philippe Buton, “The French Left and the Politicization of Environmental Issues”, in European History Quarterly, volume 52, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(communism) An ideology or organization bearing similarities with communism.


red wedding

The first sense derives from red as an adjective meaning "associated with or supportive of communism." The second sense derives from The Red Wedding scene in A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.

As the church sought to make these events significant with its ceremonies, so did the Communists with their “Red weddings,” “Red funerals” and “Red christenings.”

1942 October, Albert Rhys Williams, “Religion in the USSR”, in Soviet Russia Today, page 15:

They celebrated “red weddings” at factories, bride and groom standing before a piece of machinery and pledging their loyalty first to the communist state, then to each other.

1994, Woodford McClellan, Russia: The Soviet Period and After, page 77:

Soon "Red weddings" replaced church weddings for dedicated Communists.

1998, Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, page 186:

(dated, communism) A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.


People's Korea

Shortened form of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the official name of North Korea.

Unironically, People's Korea has always been based.

2022 November 22, WingedLionGyoza, “[KCTV, North Korea’s state television broadcaster] showed the opener of the 2022 FIFA World Cup despite not buying the rights to it, instead pirating the signal and blurring the original logo (from r/soccer)”, in Reddit, Piracy, archived from the original on 2022-11-24:


FALC

FALC is a strong brew of technological determinism, sunny utopianism, and souped-up socialism: Let the robots do all the work, and let humans enjoy the fruits of their labor in equal measure.

2019 June 20, Annie Lowrey, “Give Us Fully Automated Luxury Communism”, in The Atlantic:

fully automated luxury communism
w:fully automated luxury communism

Initialism of fully automated luxury communism.


Tsedenbalist

(communism, historical) A supporter of Tsedenbalism.


October Revolution

So named as the revolution happened on 25 October 1917 (7 November 1917 N.S.) in Julian calendar that was used by Russia.

Coordinate term: February Revolution

(historical) The second of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.


Red Ukrainian

From red + Ukrainian; see red (“communist”).

The so-called Red Ukrainians, who ideologically support the Soviet Union, are mostly agnostics and atheists.

1950, Seymour Martin Lipset, Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan, page 170:

(chiefly Canada) A Communist Ukrainian or person of Ukrainian ethnicity.


infocommunist

From info + communist, possibly derived from infoanarchist.

So far, I have made two arguments. One is that you can’t justify an opposition to proprietary information solely on an ethical imperative to share, unless you are willing to extend that ethical imperative to all resources and thus embrace true communism. Second, an appeal to the non–rival nature of digital information can’t get you off the slippery slope to info–communism if your case is built entirely around a deontological appeal to the value of sharing and cooperation.

2008, Milton Mueller, “Info-communism? Ownership and freedom in the digital economy”, in First Monday, volume 13, number 4, →DOI:

In contrast to the capitalist mode of production, in the info-communist mode of production both the relations of production and the productive forces are fully socialized—they are based on common ownership of the means of production and collaborative work.

2014, Sylvain Firer-Blaess, Christian Fuchs, “Wikipedia: An Info-Communist Manifesto”, in Television & New Media, volume 15, number 2, →DOI:

(politics, economics) A person who supports commons in information and communications.


Free Soviets

(history, anarchism, communism) An anarchist territory in southern Ukraine during the Russian Civil War


capitalist roadism

By analogy with capitalist roader. By surface analysis, capitalist + road (figurative) + -ism (suffix denoting a particular doctrine, theory, or political movement).

surf

(Maoism, chiefly historical, derogatory) The ideology of a capitalist roader: one (especially a Chinese Communist Party official) who bows to pressure from bourgeois forces and attempts to pull the Cultural Revolution in a capitalist direction.


hammered and sickled

An allusion to the hammer and sickle emblem.

(informal) Converted or coerced into communism.


MPAJA

Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army
w:Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army

(Malaysia, Singapore, historical) Initialism of Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army.


NDFP

w:National Democratic Front of the Philippines

(Philippine politics) Initialism of National Democratic Front of the Philippines.


MNLA

Malayan National Liberation Army
w:Malayan National Liberation Army

(Malaysia, Singapore, historical) Initialism of Malayan National Liberation Army.


NKCP

North Kalimantan Communist Party
w:North Kalimantan Communist Party

(Malaysian politics, historical) Initialism of North Kalimantan Communist Party.


hamsick

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory, neologism) A communist, or a supporter of communism.

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory, neologism, by extension) A supporter of far-left views or the Soviet Union.


workers' paradise

en-noun

workers' paradise (plural workers' paradises)

(communism) A society where all individuals would have their needs provided for by the government.


workers' salute

workers' salute (plural workers' salutes)

(labour, communism, socialism) A type of raised fist salute associated with the labor movement.