Kropotkinist

(anarchism, communism) An adherent of Peter Kropotkin's anarchist-communism; an anarcho-communist.


red

en-adj

red (comparative redder or more red, superlative reddest or most red)

redder (comparative)
more red (comparative)
reddest (superlative)
most red (superlative)

nonred

antonym(s) of “having red as its colour”

antired

antonym(s) of “having red as its colour charge”

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).

punainen

(card games: of the hearts or diamonds suits

a red state

a red Congress

(politics, often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:

(US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.


cadre

Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). The American pronunciations in /eɪ/ may be due to a mistaken assumption that this word comes from Spanish or Italian, when in fact it is strictly French (the Spanish and Italian equivalents are respectively cuadro and quadro).

der

After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice).

1986, Robert Elsie, Dictionary of Albanian Literature, page 101:

Finally, the exchange, circulation and education of local cadres constitute another key strategy implemented by the provincial leadership in its efforts to diffuse economic development into the backward inland region.

1997, Jae Ho Chung, edited by David S.G. Goodman, China's Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture, Routledge, page 146:

Party cadres must guard against the temptations of power, money and sex.

2006, “China airbrushes Chen”, in Financial Times:

(chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.

kader

chiefly in communism: core of managing group


communism

en-noun

communism (countable and uncountable, plural communisms)

A borrowing from French communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”). By surface analysis, commune + -ism.

anarcho-communism

anarchist communism, free communism, libertarian communism

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.


communist

From French communiste, from commun (“common, communal”) + -iste (“-ist”). By surface analysis, commune + -ist.

anarcho-communist

anarchist communist, communist anarchist, free communist, libertarian communist

(communism) An advocate of a society based on the common ownership of property; a proponent of communism.

kommunis

person who follows a communist philosophy


Khmer Rouge

/ˈkmɛəɹ ˈɹuːʒ/

/kəˈmɛəɹ ˈɹuːʒ/

From French Khmer rouge (“red Khmer”), from Khmer (“Khmer”) + rouge (“red”).

(historical) A Cambodian communist guerrilla force active from the 1970s to the 1990s under the leadership of Pol Pot.


politburo

/ˈpɒlɪtˌbjʊəɹəʊ/

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin

Borrowed from Russian Политбюро́ (Politbjuró, “politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union”), a contraction of полити́ческое бюро́ (politíčeskoje bjuró, “political bureau”).

bor

The governing council and chief policymaking body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other Marxist-Leninist political systems.

քաղբյուրո

governing council and chief policymaking body of a Marxist-Leninist political system


comrade

From late Middle English comered, from Middle French camarade, from Spanish camarada or Italian camerata, from Medieval Latin *camarata, from Latin camara, camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Compare camaraderie.

Hello, comrade. Are you going to the Communist Party meeting tonight?

(communism) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.

Comrade Lenin inspired our people to undertake great works.

(communism) A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist, socialist, or Islamist state.


working class

And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

It may seem that the Met was a snobbish outfit, a betrayer of the egalitarian dreams of Charles Pearson, but in being one of the pioneers of working men's fares the company had helped to bring about a revolution that would allow the working classes to live in London. Cheap trains would supersede Gladstone's well-meant Parliamentary Trains.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 47:

The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.


working class

en-adj

working class (comparative more working class, superlative most working class)

more working class (comparative)
most working class (superlative)
working-class before noun (usually)


hammer and sickle

en-noun

hammer and sickle (plural hammers and sickles)

The symbol was developed by Yevgeny Kamzolkin in 1917, based on antetypes like hammer and pick (symbol of mining). The hammer represents workers, while the sickle represents farmers.

He remembers the [train] journeys fondly—the vast expanses of the Soviet empire rolling by, the glasses of tea served in metal cup holders embossed with the hammer and sickle.

December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time:

A depiction of a sickle crossed with a hammer, used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union.

(metonymically) Socialism or communism itself.


fellow traveller

fellow traveller (plural fellow travellers)

Near-synonym: camp follower

Earlier in the year, Ohio Senator Robert Taft charged that Democratic congressional proposals "bordered on communism," while Joe Martin called for Republican victories in order to oust the Communists and fellow travelers from the federal government.

1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

The summary case files used by the Internal Security Council, now declassified and available at the British National Archives, reveal how flimsy many of the cases against the detainees were: classifications could be as vague as "suspected communist", "communist sympathiser", "suspected communist sympathiser" and even "fellow traveller".

2023 February 2, “Sixty years since Operation Coldstore”, in We the Citizens:

(US) One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization without belonging to it; especially a Communist sympathizer.


Iron Curtain

/ˌaɪən ˈkɜːtn̩/

A specialized use of iron curtain (“(figurative) impenetrable barrier”), probably partly a calque of German eiserner Vorhang which was used in speeches in the 1940s that were translated into English. The English term appeared in telegrams from the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874–1965) to the President of the United States Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) in 1945, before being popularized in a speech given by Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946: see the quotations.

We liked the plain people of Russia wherever we met them. […] We were behind the "iron curtain" at last!

1920, Mrs. Philip Snowden [i.e., Ethel Snowden], “Making Our Plans”, in Through Bolshevik Russia, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, pages 31 and 32:

In the east the iron curtain behind which, unseen by the eyes of the world, the work of destruction goes on, is moving steadily forward.

1945 May 3, Court Schwerin von Krosigk [i.e., Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk], “New foreign minister broadcasts”, in [anonymous], transl., The Manchester Guardian, number 30,757, Manchester: […] John Russell Scott for the Manchester Guardian & Evening News, […], →OCLC, page 5, column 6:

An iron curtain is drawn down upon their [Russia's] front. We do not know what is going on behind.

1945 May 12, Winston Churchill, “No. 6: Leahy Papers: Telegram: Prime Minister Churchill to President [Harry S.] Truman”, in Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers: The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference) 1945 […] (86th Congress, 1st Session, House Document; no. 161, vol I; Department of State Publication; 7015), volume I, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1960, →OCLC, paragraph 3, page 9:

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

1946 March 5, Winston Churchill, “The Sinews of Peace”, in Westminster College Bulletin: World Spotlight Turns on Westminster, series 46, number 1, Fulton, Mo.: Westminster College, published April 1946, →OCLC, column 1:

Indeed, rail traffic of all kinds is developing through the Iron Curtain – for instance, last year a total of 6,445 wagons controlled by Interfrigo, the international company for refrigerated transport, passed between East and West; […]

1960 March, “Talking of Trains: London–Paris in Four Hours”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 134:

Justice is giving ground to the forces of evil. These developments have confused the camp of freedom and abetted the growth of Communism. Even so, the fierce struggle for freedom of the people shut behind the Iron Curtain and the support for their emancipation provided by peace-loving people outside the Iron Curtain have never ceased despite the buffeting from waves of appeasement.

1973 July 17 (date delivered), Chiang Kai-shek, “President Chiang Kai-shek’s Message to the Mass Rally Supporting Captive Nations Week”, in L. Y. Chen, editor, Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 28, Taipei, Taiwan: Chung Hwa Information Service, published 22 July 1973, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, columns 1–2:

Now, we are not in a new Cold War. We don't see the descending of a new Iron Curtain, but we have moved back very, very sharply in the wrong direction. We must work with the many Russian democrats still functioning in and out of government, in and out of Parliament, in and out of the business community, to make the dream of a Russian democracy become a reality.

2007 May 17, Tom Lantos, Chairman, Russia: Rebuilding the Iron Curtain: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session […] (Serial No. 110-65), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 3:

[…] Christopher Hill, one of the Western critics whose works were cited and appreciated behind the Iron Curtain throughout the decades of state socialism.

2022, Miklós Péti, “Samson: An Unlikely Hero of Socialism”, in Timothy Mathews, editor, Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain: Reading, Translating and Staging Milton in Communist Hungary (Literature and Translation), London: UCL Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 68:

(historical) Chiefly preceded by the: the dividing line between Western Europe and the Soviet controlled regions, especially during the Cold War (1947–1991).


redskin

en:Native American name controversy#Controversial terminology

The Red & Anarchist Skinheads, a left‐wing splinter of the SHARP group, formed in 1993. It grew out of influences from the redskin culture in England.

(anarchism, communism) An anticapitalist skinhead.


apparatchik

apparatchik (plural apparatchiks or apparatchiki)

apparatchiks (plural)
apparatchiki (plural)

/æpəˈɹæt͡ʃɪk/

From Russian аппара́тчик (apparátčik, “operator, apparatchik”), from аппара́т (apparát, “apparat, apparatus (of state)”) + suffix -чик (-čik).

bor

Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world.

1965 February 12, “Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists”, in Time, volume 85, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2009-03-10:

In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbo-Croatian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Milošević played the national card in Kosovo.

2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 34:

(historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.


pioneer

/ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪɹ/

From Middle French pionnier (“originally, a foot soldier”), Old French peonier, from peon (“a foot soldier”) (modern French: pion). See pawn (in chess).

uder

(communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.

pionier

member of a child organization in the Soviet bloc


Communist

I caught a glimpse of them through the half-opened door, and had a passing impression of prosperous and intelligent men, with astrakhan collars to their coats, glistening top-hats, and every appearance of that bourgeois well-being which the successful Communist so readily assumes.

1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:

(inexact) Any citizen of a country controlled by such a party, particularly Red Chinese and (historical) Soviets.


Red

The 5th “Red” army corps is also making for Wuting while the 9th “Red” army corps is preparing bamboo rafts for crossing the Kin Sha Kiang (River) northwards to invade south-western Szechuan.

1935 May 18, “Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Urges Full Development of Resources in Yunnan”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 72, number 12, →OCLC, page 385, column 1:

The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

A Defense Ministry communique said 40 Communist craft were sighted Tuesday off Peikantang, a tiny island in the Matsu group, but fled when the island's guns opened fire. The Matsus are off the Red port of Foochow, opposite the northern tip of Formosa.

1954 September 30, “Nationalist Forces Rout 40 Red Boats”, in The Washington Post and Times Herald, volume 77, number 299, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

First reports were that the Reds, in five gunboats and swarms of junks, succeeded in landing on tiny Wuchiu in Formosa Strait, but were beaten off with many captured.[…]
The attack on Wuchiu, a mile-long, half-mile-wide island 15 miles off the mainland, was the first amphibious operation by the Reds since they began boasting last summer they would "liberate" Formosa.

1954 November 27, “Red Assault on Tiny Isle Beaten Off, Say Nationalists”, in The Daily Colonist, volume 96, number 294, Victoria, British Columbia, page 1, columns 6, 7:

Teng left China just before the Red takeover to come to this country.

1963 December 18, Chinatown News, page 12:

Sixty knots? No way, Barnes. The Reds don't have anything that fast.

1989, James Cameron, The Abyss (motion picture):


Red

A nickname given to someone who has or had red hair.


Red

the Red Army


Comintern

From Russian Коминте́рн (Komintérn), contracted abbreviation of Коммуни́сти́ческий Интернациона́л (Kommunístíčeskij Intɛrnacionál, “Communist International”), from коммунисти́ческий (kommunistíčeskij) + Интернациона́л (Intɛrnacionál).

(historical) An international association of Communist parties, established in 1919 by Vladimir Lenin and dissolved in 1943.


NPA

(Philippines) Initialism of New People's Army.


Maoism

en-noun

Maoism (usually uncountable, plural Maoisms)

From Mao (surname of Mao Zedong) + -ism.

Some of the farmers were arrested in Wuhan parks where they allegedly spoke against Maoism and the Communist dictatorship, the report said.

1973 March 4, “Starving farmers given jail terms”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 8, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

The philosophy espoused by Chinese leader Mao Zedong, a form of Marxism-Leninism that focuses on the peasantry as the revolutionary vanguard.


agitprop

agitprop (countable and uncountable, plural agitprops)

/ˈædʒɪtpɹɒp/

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/ˈæd͡ʒətˌpɹɑp/

The noun is borrowed from Russian агитпро́п (agitpróp, “agitprop”), Агитпро́п (Agitpróp, “Agitprop (Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Soviet Union)”), short for отде́л агитации и пропаганды (otdél agitacii i propagandy, “Department for Agitation and Propaganda”); analysable as a blend of agitation + propaganda.
The verb is derived from the noun.

bor

The letter was pure puffery, probably written by some clerk in North Korea's agitprop bureau, but [Donald] Trump loved it.

2020 June 23, John Bolton, “The Singapore Sling”, in The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 96:

Like most pieces of agitprop, the Lucas and Sargent paper vastly overstated the deficiencies of the old order.

2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, p. 2

(uncountable, also attributively) Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

агітпро́п

political propaganda disseminated through art, etc.


Stalinism

en-noun

Stalinism (usually uncountable, plural Stalinisms)

The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

stalinizëm

Communist philosophies espoused by Josef Stalin

The act or state of living in accord with the communist philosophies of Stalin.


commie

Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix).


Bolshevik

en-noun

Bolshevik (plural Bolsheviks or Bolsheviki)

Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), from большинство́ (bolʹšinstvó, “majority”).

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(historical) A member of the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

bolshevik

a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917


militant

From Middle French militant, from Latin mīlitāns, present participle of mīlitāre (“to serve as a soldier”).

(specifically, communism) someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics.

троцкист

one who supports a Trotskyite political view


red flag

Improper formatting is a red flag to look for other problems with the data.

The first major red flag with Barbara was her use of emojis. After our second session, in which I listed my many negative qualities, she said my long-term mission was to accept myself – a statement she ended with a winking face.

2016 July 9, Angelina Chapin, “Text therapy: once my therapist sent me an emoji, I knew it was game over”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-15:

In the pre-cellphone world of the early '80s, my dad might have done a few things that today would raise a few red flags, but in truth cultivated a sense of independence. "I'm headed to the ballpark," he'd say, dropping $20 on the desk in a Chicago hotel room. "Take the El to Addison, your ticket should be at Will Call. Try to find the media room after the game or just hang around outside the gate or just meet me back here."

2021 June 19, David Vecsey, “Former Times Columnist George Vecsey Gets Tribute From Son”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-07:

Evolved Ape investors noticed several red flags leading up to Evil Ape's rug pull. After the public sale on September 24, the announcements seemed suspiciously unprofessional and several of the leaders were not around anymore, one investor who requested anonymity due to the ongoing fallout from the scam told Motherboard. But they chalked it up to lack of experience at the time. "I don't think this giant storm was ever what was expected," the investor said.

2021 October 5, Ekin Genç, “Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed.”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-05-28:

(informal) A cue, warning, or alert; a sign or signal that something is wrong.

紅燈

a cue, warning, or alert; a sign or signal that something is wrong


presidium

presidium (plural presidia or presidiums)

Borrowed from Russian прези́диум (prezídium), from Latin praesidium. Doublet of praesidium and presidio.

A permanent executive committee, used primarily in Communist countries, with the power to act for a larger governing body when the latter is in recess.

Such an executive committee headed by the President of the Supreme Soviet.


Juche

/ˈd͡ʒuːt͡ʃeɪ/

Borrowed from Korean 주체(主體) (juche, “self-reliance”, literally “subject”).

bor+

Despite its rejection of theism and its political origins, there are several reasons for labeling Juche ideology a form of spirituality. […] According to Juche teachings, human beings only exist within societies.

2008, Don Baker, Korean Spirituality, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 147:

زُوتْشِيَّة

North Korean self-reliance state ideology


Maoist

After Richard Nixon's visit to Peiping in 1972 and the establishment of "liaison offices" in Washington and Peiping, the Maoists have been stepping up their infiltration and subversive activities in the United States, the sources pointed out.

1975 August 3, “Peiping increasing aid to Red insurgents”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 30, Taipei, page 1:


people's army

A communist-based military organization, often linked to a communist political party; the armed forces of a communist state.


YCL

Young Communist League
w:Young Communist League

Initialism of Young Communist League, the youth section of the Communist Party of the USA.


SLA

en-noun

SLA (countable and uncountable, plural SLAs)

Symbionese Liberation Army
w:Symbionese Liberation Army

(Maoism, politics, US) Initialism of Symbionese Liberation Army.


communist bandit

communist bandit (plural communist bandits)

(archaic, derogatory) A Chinese communist.


anti-imperialism

anti-imperialism (usually uncountable, plural anti-imperialisms)

Any belief or practice which opposes imperialism.


MCP

Malayan Communist Party
w:Malayan Communist Party

(Malaysia, Singapore, politics, historical) Initialism of Malayan Communist Party (“Parti Komunis Malaya”).


Commie

en-adj

Commie (comparative more Commie, superlative most Commie)

more Commie (comparative)
most Commie (superlative)


Commie

(computing, slang) A Commodore computer.


Bolshevism

en-noun

Bolshevism (countable and uncountable, plural Bolshevisms)

/ˈbɑlʃəˌvɪzəm/

Borrowed from Russian большеви́зм (bolʹševízm, “Bolshevism”), from большинство (bolʹšinstvo, “majority, most”) (referring to the fact that the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party won on the majority of the important issues at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903) + -и́зм (-ízm, “-ism”, suffix forming the names of systems, schools of thought or theories based on the names of their subjects or objects). большинство is derived from большо́й (bolʹšój, “great, large”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bel-) + -ство (-stvo, suffix forming a neuter noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, quality or state) (from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo (suffix forming nouns denoting a condition or state)).

der

We of this generation owe it to the countless dead, to the peoples now living, to our children and children's children not to let the present situation go by without attempting in good faith to establish among those nations that will tolerate neither Kaiserism nor Bolshevism such a form of international court and police power as will have for its purpose the ringing out of an age of war and the ringing in of an age of peace.

1919, J[oseph] A[lfred] A[rner] Burnquist, Inaugural Message of Gov. J. A. A. Burnquist to the Legislature of Minnesota, [Minn.]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 4:

Let me ask you then, first, to consider what Bolshevism really is. Well, politically it is the usurpation of power over the whole by a small section of the community. […] The fundamental idea or principle of Bolshevism is that the proletariat, that is to say the lowest stratum of society, the most ignorant, the least educated, should be the basis of the State, should in fact absolutely control the State. Instead of the principle announced in the Declaration of Independence—that all men are created free and equal, Bolshevism proceeds upon the principle that only the proletariat has any rights or should enjoy any freedom; all other classes of the community are anathema.

1919 April 6, Randolph H. McKim, The Peril of Bolshevism and the Duty of America: A Sermon Delivered in the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C., on Sunday, April 6, 1919 by the Rector, Washington, D.C.: Vestry of the Church of the Epiphany, →OCLC, page 4:

You can never tell to what length of devilry men will go when, setting out to see justice done, they give rein to the spirit of vindictiveness and are bent only on revenge and reprisals. The results may be terrible when the Simeons and Levis of society take law and justice into their own hands. Often it has worked out into grossest inhumanity and vilest bolshevism.

[1923], Thomas Tully, “Simeon and Levi—Evil Confederates”, in The Sons of Jacob and Their Tribal Blessings: Character Studies: A Series of Sunday Afternoon Addresses, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 32:

The task of educating the workers and all toilers in the spirit of proletarian internationalism is one of the fundamental tasks of every Communist Party. But whoever thinks that this permits him, or even compels him, to sneer at all the national sentiments of the broad toiling masses is far from genuine Bolshevism, and has understood nothing of the teaching of [Vladimir] Lenin and [Joseph] Stalin on the national question.

1935 September, Georgi Dimitroff (reporter), “United Front of the Working Class against Fascism”, in Working Class Unity—Bulwark against Fascism: The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Fight for the Unity of the Working Class against Fascism: Seventh World Congress of the Communist International: Report, New York, N.Y.: Workers Library Publishers, →OCLC, pages 79–80:

Important for our purposes is the recognition that the proletariat could be seduced from its historic mission, at least for significant periods of time, by controlled propaganda and capitalist blandishments. The conviction, conjoined with Lenin's elitism, produced a fateful compound: Bolshevism.

1974, A[nthony] James Gregor, “The Twentieth Century and the Crisis of Classical Marxism”, in The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 127:

[…] Stalin was never able to monopolise Marxism, and the same deficiencies in theory which facilitate the claim of Stalinism to be a Marxism, allowed alternatives – even other Bolshevisms – to become subversive doctrines in relation to the reality of Stalinist power.

1992, M[ichael] C[harles] Howard, J[ohn] E[dward] King, “The Political Economy of Stalin”, in A History of Marxian Economics, volumes II (1929–1990), Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 40:

The Communist political ideology adopted by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Marxism-Leninism.


Stalinist

en-adj

Stalinist (comparative more Stalinist, superlative most Stalinist)

more Stalinist (comparative)
most Stalinist (superlative)

Of, relating to, or resembling Joseph Stalin, a Bolshevik revolutionary.


CPI

Communist Party of India
w:Communist Party of India

(Indian politics) Initialism of Communist Party of India, a political party.


self-criticism

to commit self-criticism

... commit self - criticism and allow other people to criticize him . If we do all these things , then there is hope and there is a future for Marxism . The most important thing is consistency . If you make a promise you must keep it[…]

1991, Edward A. Gargan, China's Fate: A People's Turbulent Struggle with Reform and Repression, 1980-1990, Doubleday Books:

(communism, Juche) a practice of confessing and criticizing one's real or imagined transgressions in public settings, especially in East Asia.


Communist Party of China

the Communist Party of China (canonical)

(derogatory)

The Communist Party of China has always maintained that in order to preserve world peace, to realize peaceful coexistence and to relax international tension, it is necessary, above all, to oppose resolutely the U.S. imperialist politices of aggression and war and to mobilize the masses of the people to wage a tit-for-tat struggle against U.S. imperialism.

1962, Workers of All Countries Unite, Oppose Our Common Enemy, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 5:

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(Chinese politics) The ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.

中国共産党

ちゅうごくきょうさんとう


Marxism-Leninism

Meanwhile, “Mao Zedong Thought”, which originated in the 1930s, continues rhetorically to be recognised as one of the party’s guiding principles, an extension of Marxism-Leninism tweaked for China.

2012 November 6, John Ruwitch, Benjamin Kang Lim, Ben Blanchard, Adam Jourdan, “As China enters new era, how much of Mao will stay?”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-07-18, World News:

(politics, communism) A communist ideological stream that emerged as the mainstream tendency amongst the Communist parties in the 1920s as it was adopted as the ideological foundation of the Communist International during Stalin's era, and was later adopted by the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam, and several other nations.


Reds

In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin russātī (“Reddish-Brown-Clads”) or factio russata (“the reddish-brown-clad faction”) and Byzantine Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).

bor

(informal, politics) Synonym of Communist Party in various contexts.


ouvrierism

(communism) The glorification of manual laborers, often in opposition to the leadership of labor or socialist movements.

ouvrierisme

(communism) the glorification of manual laborers


ouvrierist

(communism) Of, pertaining to, or supporting ouvrierism, the glorification of manual laborers.


Pathet Lao

From Lao ປະເທດລາວ (pa thēt lāo), from ປະເທດ (pa thēt, “country, state”) + ລາວ (lāo, “Lao”).

A communist nationalist movement and political party in Laos, which took power in 1975 after a civil war.


comsymp

Coined by American businessman and political organizer Robert Welch from a blend of Communist + sympathizer.

coinage

Personally, I think he's a comsymp. Or close. That's why I never had much enthusiasm for being on it, great as you all seem to think it is.

1965, Niven Busch, The Gentleman from California:

The guard said he wouldn't be surprised to find out that the longhaired comsymp pervos had done it by putting something into the water.

1990, Stephen King, The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition:

[L]iberals were committed[…] to convincing America that Democrats were now modern and pragmatic, not wasteful bleeding-heart suckers or childish protesters or comsymp fools.

2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:

(slang, derogatory) A Communist sympathizer; a liberal.


antipeople

en-adj

antipeople (comparative more antipeople, superlative most antipeople)

more antipeople (comparative)
most antipeople (superlative)

"They said that I had contacted foreign media and called me anti-China, antipeople and antiparty."

2009 January 9, Edward Wong, “Police in China Halt Parents Seeking Investigation Into School Collapses”, in New York Times:

(communism) Opposed to the interests of the people


maximalist

maximalist (comparative more maximalist, superlative most maximalist)

more maximalist (comparative)
most maximalist (superlative)

From maximal + -ist, by analogy with minimalist.

His inclusion in the official delegation to Moscow caused surprise today and was seen as indicative of the Italian Communists' aversion to Maximalist currents in international communism.

1961 October 4, Paul Hofmann, “Communists in West Expected to Back Khrushchev Against Soviet and Chinese Left-Wing Extremists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(historical, communism) Relating to far-left communism.


maximalist

After a firm opening and an hour of fairly well sustained strength the stock market once more suffered a wide break yesterday following the receipt of the news of the overthrow of Kerensky and the announced intention of the Maximalists to propose an immediate peace with Germany.

1917 November 9, “Russian News Brings About Another Collapse—Evidenceof Banking Support”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Mr. Bernstein, who spent three months in Petrograd after the Revolution and had seen the Maximalists at work, said their aim was to bring about utter destruction not only of the freedom of the Jews, but also the freedom of all Russia.

1917 November 19, “Jews Against Bolsheviki”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(historical, communism, obsolete, capitalized) A Bolshevik.


Great Leap Forward

Calque from Chinese 大躍進／大跃进 (Dàyuèjìn). Coined by a People's Daily commentator in 1957.

zh-l

大躍進／大跃进 (Dàyuèjìn)

coinage

Louti, in Hunan Province, Central China, is one of the numerous small industrial cities that have grown up since liberation, particularly since the big leap forward.

[1960, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 2308-2328, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

In the early 1960s, following the collapse of Mao's Great Leap Forward, Liu and Chang, as party officials in the city of I-pin (120 miles south of Szechwan's capital, Chengtu), vigorously prosecuted those cadres under their jurisdiction who had shown less than wholehearted devotion to that campaign.

1971, Thomas Jay Matthews, “The Cultural Revolution in Szechwan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:

(historical) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).


socialist realism

Derided, lampooned and long since consigned to the dustbin of aesthetic history, the art of Soviet Socialist Realism has not enjoyed a happy afterlife following the collapse of communism.

2009 October 24, Vanessa Thorpe, “New exhibition in Berlin brings forgotten Soviet art back to reality”, in The Observer:

dictatorship of the proletariat
dictatorship of the proletariat

(art) A Stalinist idealization of the dictatorship of the proletariat applied to art that used realistic techniques to show the struggle for socialism in a positive and optimistic manner.


Menshevik

en-noun

Menshevik (plural Mensheviks or Mensheviki)

Borrowed from Russian меньшеви́к (menʹševík), derived from меньшинство́ (menʹšinstvó, “minority”), formed in turn from Russian ме́ньше (ménʹše), the comparative of ма́лый (mályj, “little”).

‘Better an ultra-leftist than a Menshevik,’ said Rosa Kaletsky.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, page 259:

Let me be clear. The men and women on this stage have more ideas, more experience, more common sense than every participant in the Democratic debate. That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.

2015 October 28, Ted Cruz, quotee, “Transcript: Read the Full Text of the CNBC Republican Debate in Boulder”, in Time:

(now chiefly historical) A member of the gradualist or moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution, when they split with the Bolsheviks; or a member of a later independent moderate-Marxist party formed in 1917.

մենշեւիկ

member of a minority faction of the Russian revolutionary movement


Cultural Revolution

Calque from Chinese 文化大革命 (Wénhuà Dà Gémìng).

The Cultural Revolution created enormous dislocations in the Chinese economy and society.[...]During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s.

1990, Chen Yizi (陳一諮), quotee, Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

Li Xiaojiang was born in 1952 in Henan Province. She worked in the countryside for three years during the Cultural Revolution before being assigned a job as fitter and driver in a machine factory in Wuhan, Hebei^([sic – meaning Hubei]) Province.

1994, Diana B. Kingsbury, “The Authors”, in 金婉婷 [Diana B. Kingsbury], transl., I Wish I Were a Wolf: The New Voice in Chinese Women's Literature [我要属狼：中国当代女性文学选], 1st edition, Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 248:

我要属狼：中国当代女性文学选

Liu’s person and his public meaning became completely estranged: the former was cut off from the instruments of policy and sequestered in his official residence at Chungnanhai, but the other “Liu” became the animating spirit of opposition against which the GPCR was waged, and indeed proved so dauntless and resourceful an opponent that he could be vanquished only after two years of fierce “struggle.”

[1998, Lowell Dittmer, Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:

Not until 1421, when all the temples and palaces necessary for the imperial ceremonies needed to reconcile Heaven and Earth had been built, did Emperor Yongle dare to make the great move. Beijing, the "Northern Capital" replaced Nanjing, the provisional "Southern Capital." The Heavenly Temple and the Altars of Earth, Moon and Sun, Nine Dragon Wall and Echo Wall, Drum Tower and Bell Tower all testify to the artistry of that era. Though damaged during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), they have since been restored and now once again evoke the wonder and admiration of visitors.

1999, “Beijing”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition (Atlas), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367, column 2:

In China, theres^([sic – meaning there's]) a long tradition of using Cultural Revolution-style stock phrases to marginalize protest activities and those who engage in them. Unrest is predictably blamed on a small group of people with ulterior motives," "evil forces plotting behind the scenes," and "masses who don't know the truth."

2008 December 1, Sky Canaves, “A Rare Media Critique of the Chinese System from Within”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-11:

In 1975, China was emerging from the Cultural Revolution, its government’s effort to purify and revitalize society. Communist officials had set up indoctrination programs, broadcast propaganda over omnipresent loudspeakers, and sought to stamp out any evidence of China’s ancient history.

2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 22–23:

Amid yellow pagodas pointing heavenward, Mr. Peng and a small group of volunteers built memorial arches across the park’s steep roads and paths lined with riotous subtropical vegetation. The site, in the Chenghai district of Shantou, was an appropriate place for memory — Buddhist pagodas are associated with the dead, and many local victims of the Cultural Revolution lie here, many buried in mass graves.

2016 October 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-03, Asia Pacific:

(historical) The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the Communist China.

grande révolution culturelle prolétarienne

Velíkaja proletárskaja kulʹtúrnaja revoljúcija

Вели́кая пролета́рская культу́рная револю́ция


hongweibing

From Mandarin 紅衛兵／红卫兵 (hóngwèibīng, “red defense soldier; red guard”).

zh-l

The Chinese are hastily obliterating all traces of hongweibing pogroms in Moslem mosques and other holy places. Mao's successors have been clamouring for Moslems to preserve the Islamic cultural heritage. The blame for all the excesses in the Islamic policy has been heaped upon the "gang of four" and Lin Biao.

1981, Far Eastern Affairs, number 4, Moscow: Progress Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125:

(historical) red guards, a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other young people in China, who were mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution.


communize

en-verb

communize (third-person singular simple present communizes, present participle communizing, simple past and past participle communized)

communizes (present singular third-person)
communizing (participle present)
communized (participle past)
communized (past)


Brezhnev

Borrowed from Russian Бре́жнев (Bréžnev).

Бре́жнев Брежнев#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian surname Бре́жнев (Bréžnev); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Leonid Brezhnev.


red guard

What on Earth could be next, the Chinese red guard-style maltreatment of language learners and yodelers?

In Beijing, Red Guard assaults destroyed 4,922 of the capital’s 6,843 designated “places of cultural or historical interest.” The Forbidden City itself was reportedly saved only by Zhou Enlai’s personal intervention.

2011, Henry Kissinger, On China, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:

A member of any of several organizations known as Red Guards or Red Guard.


class struggle

en-noun

class struggle (usually uncountable, plural class struggles)

This last point is particularly dear to Marx with his emphasis on the relation of surplus labor to the length of the working day and to class struggle over conditions of production <…>, both of which disappear from view in Sraffa.

2016, Anwar Shaikh, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 427:

Fundamentalists do not deny that the class struggle, even as this might manifest itself in tepid ‘business unionism’, plays a role in articulating the crisis tendencies of the capitalist economy.

2019, Murray E. G. Smith, Invisible Leviathan: Marx's Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism, →ISBN, page 190:

Conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes); the active expression of a theoretical class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective.


Red Brigades

(historical) A former Marxist-Leninist militant group based in Italy.


Hoxhaism

From Hoxha + -ism, after Albanian leader Enver Hoxha.

A form of antirevisionist Marxism-Leninism.


Red China

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

The highest military body in Red China, the People’s Revolutionary Military Council, is made up of 22 of these 52 Red generals, and three-fifths of them are on the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

1951, Robert B. Rigg, Red China's Fighting Hordes, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 61:

Kennedy said that he was opposed to recognition of Red China. He indicated, however, that strong arguments had been presented to him in favor of the so-called “two Chinas policy.” Under this policy, Nationalist China would retain its seat on the Security Council, and Red China would have only a seat in the Assembly. This would mean that Red China would have only one vote out of about a hundred in the Assembly and would not be able to block UN action by veto. Kennedy said that proponents of this policy were contending that Red China could not do any damage in the UN under such circumstances.

1962, Richard M. Nixon, Six Crises, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 408:

Overseas, however, leading public figures urged on us a variety of different courses. For example, former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, returning early in September from a British Labor-party tour of Red China, confirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung had asked him and his fellow Laborites to pressure the United States into pulling the Seventh Fleet away from the waters around Formosa, which, Attlee added, the Communists have a "strong determination" to capture.

1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 464:

On the rocky island of Tungyin, 50 miles off the coast of Red China, is the headquarters of a little-known military unit called the Anti-Communist Salvation Army. The secret army, 30,000 strong, is Chiang Kai-shek's instrument for the long-promised return to the mainland.

1963 January 11, “The World”, in Time, volume LXXXI, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, column 3:

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. Countless loyal Americans honestly feel that a world body such as the United Nations should include even Red China, but they fear being called Communist sympathizers.

1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Transformed Nonconformist”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 13:

The whole world has reason to be apprehensive of Red China, for it is likely to be an irresistible [sic] threat on earth. But what the majority of the mankind has as yet no inkling is the bitter fact that Red China is almost solely dependent on the territory of its New Dominion, Sinkiang, to carry out her expansionist design. If rightly evaluated, the land of Eastern Turkestan, which is being introduced to the outside world by the colonialistic [sic] attribution of ‘Sinkiang’ possesses all the necessary elements as a potential base for world wide expansion, not only in terms of its mineral wealth but also of its strategically unique position.

1970, Isa Alptekin, “LETTER, ISA YUSUF ALPTEKIN, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE LIBERATION OF EASTERN TURKESTAN, TO PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON”, in Wilson Center, page 1:

I thought that perhaps a sudden and effective air strike would convince the leaders in Hanoi that we were serious in our purpose and also that the North could not count on continued immunity if they persisted in aggression in the South. I realized the risks of involving the Soviets or the Chinese, as Senator Mansfield feared, I said, but neither of them was trying to bring peace or even urging restraint. I doubted that they wanted direct involvement themselves. I pointed out that our intelligence analysts believed Red China would not enter the war unless there was an invasion in the northern part of North Vietnam or unless the Hanoi regime was in danger of being toppled.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125:

The criticism is excused in two different ways. First, it is said that the Chinese Communists are not going to attack us. Actually, there is a greater likelihood of that than of the Soviet Union assaulting the United States.
Second, observers say that no matter how many weapons we get, they would be no match for the might of Red China.
These views are as mistaken as those which hold that the USSR would never strike a blow at American and that the United States is already more than strong enough.

1983 January 2, “Prospects amid the dangers”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 1, Taipei, page 1:

“This is the competition,” Ryan said. “And if we can’t have a national conversation about the red China communist government trying to displace us, looking the other way when Russia invades Ukraine and trying to outfox us at every turn … then we’re all going to be speaking Mandarin in 10 or 15 years.”

2022 April 30, Dan Merica, “A tough state in a tough year: Tim Ryan looks to overcome Democratic headwinds in Ohio”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2022-05-01:


Chicom

(politics, informal, sometimes offensive) A proponent of Chinese Communism, whether Maoist or its subsequent development.


redbait

en-verb

redbait (third-person singular simple present redbaits, present participle redbaiting, simple past and past participle redbaited)

redbaits (present singular third-person)
redbaiting (participle present)
redbaited (participle past)
redbaited (past)

While Jack Kennedy thrived in the 1950s as a sex-crazed, drug-dependent, ailment-ridden party-boy politician, Bobby, the family’s complicated sourpuss, hooked up with the redbaiting Joe McCarthy, then spun off as a crusading and corners-cutting scourge of labor corruption.

2007 September 9, David Corn, “Collision Course”, in New York Times:

(US, transitive) To attack by denouncing as a Communist.


Komsomol

Borrowed from Russian комсомо́л (komsomól), acronym of коммунисти́ческий сою́з молодёжи (kommunistíčeskij sojúz molodjóži, “Communist Union of Youth”).

acronym

коммунисти́ческий сою́з молодёжи

(historical) Young Communist League, the former youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.


CCP

On August 23 at Wuhan’s first Red Guard rally, Governor Chang T’i-hsueh, who was also second secretary of the Central Committee of the Hupei CCP, presided.¹⁵ Two days later the Wuhan CCP convened a rally of middle school Red Guards, while the Federation of Trade Unions convened a meeting of workers who supported the Red Guards.

1971, Deborah S. Davis, “The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 151–152:

By late August 1920, Chen established the first branch of the CCP, in Shanghai, comprising seven members.

1988, Stephen Uhalley, Jr., A History of the Chinese Communist Party, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:

The intelligentsia’s comments on the CCP were in many respects different from their critique of the KMT. Intellectuals in the KMT areas were naturally more familiar with the policies and performance of the Government than those of the CCP. Second, since they felt that the Government was in large measure responsible for the existing political situation, and that it still possessed the power to reform itself and end the war, they concentrated their efforts on the Government in the hope of compelling such action from it. By contrast, the CCP was relegated to the position of an opposition party which had yet to occupy any position of national power. This treatment of the CCP may have owed as much to the political restrictions under which the liberal press was operating as to the political biases of the liberals themselves. Nevertheless, their critique of the CCP, while admittedly based on less than ample information, gives the impression of having been made in good faith and was in all respects consistent with their fundamental ideological commitments.

1999, Suzanne Pepper, “The Intelligentsia's Critique of the Chinese Communists”, in Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945-1949, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200:

In 1935 the CCP's defeated army retreated to Yen-an in the northern part of Shanhsi Province. This retreat was called the Long March, during which tens of thousands of marchers died.

2000, George C. Y. Wang, Taiwan (World Conflicts and Confrontations), volume 3, Salem Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 662:

Wang said that Beijing successfully backed several pro-China politicians, who won seats in the 2018 local elections. He added the CCP desperately wants to stop Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) from being re-elected.
Wang also disclosed details about CCP's plans to take over Hong Kong and Australia, reported Liberty Times.

2019, Ching-Tse Cheng, “Chinese spy confirms China's involvement in Taiwan 2020 election”, in Taiwan News:

Beijing uses a combination of threat and inducement to pressure governments, elites, corporations, think tanks, and others – often in an opaque manner – to toe the CCP line and censor free expression.

2020, “United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China”, in whitehouse.gov, archived from the original on 2020-05-22, page 4:

Jiang died of leukemia and multiple organ failure, Xinhua added.
The politician, who was born in the eastern town of Yangzhou in 1926, was appointed secretary-general of the CCP in 1989.

2022 November 30, “Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin dies aged 96”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2023-02-13:

In 1950, it moved to Fengshan after Chengdu fell into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government relocated to Taiwan.

2023 March 19, Nien-han Liao, “Whampoa academy arguments redundant”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-21, Editorials, page 8:

Chinese Communist Party
Chinese Communist Party#English

Communist Party of China
Communist Party of China

Initialism of Chinese Communist Party. (Communist Party of China)


decommunize

en-verb

decommunize (third-person singular simple present decommunizes, present participle decommunizing, simple past and past participle decommunized)

decommunizes (present singular third-person)
decommunizing (participle present)
decommunized (participle past)
decommunized (past)

The new vision of NATO, as outlined by Baker in his speech at Berlin on December 12, 1989, of reaching out for relationships with the decommunizing states of Eastern Europe, was to be met with resistance by the French president.

2001, Charles Cogan, The Third Option: The Emancipation of European Defense, 1989-2000, page 27:


decommunization

The act, process, or result of decommunizing.


Naxalite

Derived from Bengali নকশালবাড়ি (nokśalbaṛi, “Naxalbari”), the village where the movement originated in the late 1960s. See -ite.

der+

Nobody expects anything from a Naxalite, so everything they do is a bonus.
The Naxalite problem has to be tackled by the state police forces and paramilitary forces.

2010, Sudeep Chakravarti, Red Sun:Travels In Naxalite Country, Penguin Books India, page 112:

A member of any of several militant Maoist movements in India.


Gramscian

A follower or adherent of the political ideas of Antonio Gramsci.


Red Chinese

(obsolete) originating from the Communists of the Republic of China prior to the Chinese Civil War


tankie

From tank + -ie.
Senses 1 and 2 were named for the tanks used by the Soviet Union against uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

Central Intelligence Agency
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

[W]e also desired to shock the staid older party members and the tankies. The tankies and softliners differed as to what sort of magazine Challenge should be.

1985, Terry Bushell, “Softliners and Tankies”, in Marriage of Inconvenience: An Anglo-Soviet Alliance, London: André Deutsch, →ISBN, page 10:

Stephen Well, read the Morning Star and keep up with the tankies. / Max The tankies … How the years roll by. Dubcek is back. Russia agrees to withdraw its garrisons. Czechoslovakia takes her knickers off to welcome capitalism. And all that remains of August '68 is a derisive nickname for the only real Communists left in the Communist Party. I'm exactly as old as the October Revolution …

2006, Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN:

[T]he tankies, those members of the British Communist Party who unquestioningly followed Moscow's line, up to and beyond supporting Soviet tanks rumbling through the streets of Budapest and Prague, […]

2007, Tribune, volume 71, London: Tribune Publications, →OCLC:

(UK, politics, slang, historical) A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain who supported the Soviet Union's policy of crushing revolts in Hungary in the 1950s and Czechoslovakia in the 1960s by sending tanks into those countries.

tanky

tank soldier, member of the Communist Party of Great Britain


Red Army

Calque of Russian Красная Армия (Krasnaja Armija). The red was the traditional color of the communist movement which was the official ideology of the Soviets at the period.

calque

Красная Армия

(historical, informal, military) The Soviet Armed Forces.


better dead than red

Canon Collins urged the electors to reject the candidate nominated by the Crown, Dr. R. W. Stopford, Bishop of Peterborough, who, he claimed, had said "it would be better to have nuclear war than to permit Communist domination over Britain." Canon Collins said: "I cannot believe it is proper for a bishop of the church to encourage the idea which is popularly expressed In the formula ‘better dead than red.’"

1961 August 14, “Canon Causes Stir At Church Election”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 2013-10-30, page 11:

The recertification of El Salvador's progress on human rights is nothing but a basic restatement of the Reagan foreign policy, which is "better dead than Red."

1982 July 30, Mary McGrory, “Reagan View: El Salvador's slaughter better than communism”, in Spokane Chronicle, retrieved 2013-10-30, page 6:

In a country whose motto not long ago was “Better dead than Red”, it is ironic that today Time Magazine awarded Vladimir Putin the “Man of the Year Award”.

2007 December 20, Karen Fish, “Watch Hillary Clinton Vehemently Vow to Raise Taxes and Vote for War”, in San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, retrieved 2013-10-30:

(politics) It is preferable to be deceased than to be a Communist or ruled by Communists.


CPSU

Communist Party of the Soviet Union
w:Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Initialism of Communist Party of the Soviet Union.


politruk

Borrowed from Russian политру́к (politrúk).

bor+

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


Stakhanovism

From Stakhanov + -ism, from the name of Aleksei Grigor’evich Stakhanov (Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Стаха́нов), a Russian coal miner whose prodigious output was publicised by Stalin as part of a 1935 campaign.

A system instituted in communist countries to encourage increased productivity.


anarcho-communism

(politics, economics) A form of anarchism advocating the abolition of the state and capitalism in favor of a horizontal network of voluntary associations through which people would satisfy their needs.


anarcho-communist

During the 1960s, anarcho-communists led the search for radical solutions to the historically novel problems facing young people. Above all, many people now wanted a say in the decisions which affected them.

1998, Richard Barbrook, “The Holy Fools”, in Mute, volume 1, number 11, →ISSN:

(politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcho-communism.


Eurocommunism

But isn't the French CP more tied to Moscow?
Yes. They flirted with Eurocommunism, and then they didn't stay with it for very long. Just recently around Afghanistan they showed that they were still allied with Moscow.

1981 December 19, Nancy Wechsler, Christine Delphy, “Politics In France”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 8:

An ideological trend within various Western European communist parties in the 1970s and 1980s; a form of communism less aligned with Soviet communism and allegedly more relevant to Western European social conditions.


Kimilsungism

Juche, the political thesis formed by the former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung.


Kimjongilism

(politics) Juche; the political thesis formed by the former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung, as subsequently influenced by Kim Jong-il.


Spartacist

A member of the modern Spartacist League, or International Communist League, a Trotskyist international organisation.


anti-communism

en-noun

anti-communism (usually uncountable, plural anti-communisms)


struggle session

struggle session (plural struggle sessions)

Calque from Chinese 批鬥大會／批斗大会 (pīdòu dàhuì)

zh-l

批鬥大會／批斗大会 (pīdòu dàhuì)

Wang also delivered a sensational “August 7” speech at the Foreign Ministry in a Red Guard struggle session aimed at Ch’en Yi.

1970, James Chieh Hsiung, Ideology and Practice: The Evolution of Chinese Communism, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333:

On January 8, Zhou Enlai noted, “You and your friends have come to Zhongnanhai [Liu’s official residence] ... and dragged out Liu and Deng many times.¹²⁴ Yet after a break-in and 40-minute struggle session at his home in Zhongnanhai on January 3 and Wang’s public struggle session on January 6, Liu was granted what would be his last chance to see the chairman. At midnight, January 13, Mao sent his secretary in a nondescript auto to bring Liu to the Great Hall of the People for a talk.

1998, Lowell Dittmer, Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:

(historical) A form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.


Communistphobia

Another morbid factor is also prevailing in the non-Communist countries. That is Communistphobia. Since they are afraid of Communist aggression, they are inclined to forfeit their anti-Communist stand, in the hope that they may get temporary peace by currying the favor of the aggressors.

1957, Communist Menace to Asia, page 32:

Tunku's attempt to create Communistphobia has in fact boomeranged. The local Communist Party is said to have gained in strength rather than being isolated from the indigenous population.

1965, Link: Indian Newsmagazine, Volume 8, Part 1, page 32:

Got to dine with the Home Secretary tonight—fussy old hen, he's suddenly developed Communistphobia; thinks they're going to put a bomb under his bed.

2012, Nicholas Blake, Thou Shell of Death, Random House, →ISBN, page 18:

(rare) The fear, dislike, or hatred of communism and/or communists.


libertarian communism

(anarchism, communism) Synonym of anarcho-communism


three togethers

If management personnel do not go into the shops and sections to take part in the three togethers and to learn one or more manual skills from the teachers, then they are liable to spend their whole lives in sharp struggle against the working class.

1970, Translations on People's Republic of China, page 23:

Acting under strict orders to practice the "three togethers" with the peasants, the work team personnel (generally one to three workers per production team) took up residence in the homes of these peasant roots.

1970, Richard Baum, Revolution and Reaction in Rural China:

While these studies were not themselves carried out by social scientists, professional social scientists were involved in training and advising the PKI/BTI cadres who carried out the field studies, practicing the "three togethers," the four don'ts," and the "four musts" in a remarkable forerunner of today's fashionable "bottom-up," "participatory action researh" strategies (White 1993).

2005, Hans Antlöv, Jörgen Hellman, The Java that Never was: Academic Theories and Political Practices, →ISBN:

(Maoism) A policy stating that peasants should eat together, live together, and labour together.


dekulakization

en-noun

dekulakization (countable and uncountable, plural dekulakizations)

(historical) The communist repression of the kulaks (prosperous peasants and farmers) in the Soviet Union and communistic Eastern Europe.


Icarianism

(historical) A form of communistic utopianism of the late 19th century, established by the followers of Étienne Cabet.


young pioneer

(communism) A child who is a junior member of a Communist party, or similar movement.


red scarf

red scarf (plural red scarves or red scarfs)

red scarves (plural)
red scarfs (plural)

(communism) A neckerchief worn by a young pioneer, typically red in color.


Little Red Book

In reference to the book's red colour, and because red is the traditional colour representing Communism.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, a book widely distributed in Communist China.


Four Olds

Calque of Chinese 四舊／四旧 (Sìjiù, “the four old (things)”)

cal

(historical) The four traditional things targeted for destruction during China's Cultural Revolution, usually translated as old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas.


Chekist

From Russian чеки́ст (čekíst) from Чека́ (Čeká) + -ист (-ist).

intelligence agencies
intelligence agencies

(by extension, metonymically) A national security official of the KGB, FSB or any of the state security intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation.


Soviet Reunion

For those in the Duma who wish to focus the country's energies on building a strong military in a strong state and who press for Soviet Reunion, however, enlargement can be a welcome ally.

1999, Charles-Philippe David and Jacques Lévesque, editors, The Future of NATO: Enlargement, Russia, and European Security, →ISBN, page 45:

“And that’s just America. There’s Canada and Europe and the Soviet Reunion—” The Soviet Reunion? Miley thought. Boy, someone wasn’t paying attention during Mr. Lambert’s history class.

2008, M. C. King, Hannah Montana #11: Sweet Revenge, →ISBN, page 51:

Indeed, the Georgian war antagonised not only the West, but also China, which has a vital strategic interest in maintaining the post-Cold War geo-strategic settlement. China, after all, has no desire to see a "Soviet Reunion" on its border.

2008 December 16, Nina Khrushcheva, “Putin not so funny without Bush”, in Brisbane Times:

(rare, chiefly humorous) The hypothetical reestablishment of the Soviet Union.


Judeo-Bolshevist

(derogatory, ethnic slur, politics) A communist, either of Jewish heritage or serving Jews.


cybercommunism

A communistic worldview arising in cyberspace.


PPT

(PowerPoint): Abbreviation of PowerPoint, originally used as its document filename extension.

People's Party of Timor
w:People's Party of Timor

Abbreviation of People's Party of Timor.


neo-Trotskyist

en-adj

neo-Trotskyist (comparative more neo-Trotskyist, superlative most neo-Trotskyist)

more neo-Trotskyist (comparative)
most neo-Trotskyist (superlative)

(communism) Of or pertaining to neo-Trotskyism.


neo-Trotskyist

(communism) A proponent of neo-Trotskyism.


Makhnovism

(anarchism, communism) The theory and strategy of Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary.


neo-Leninism

(communism) Leninist theory updated for the contemporary era.


international socialist

en-noun

international socialist (plural international socialists)

(communism) A member of any of various Trotskyist tendencies that hope to form bonds between workers of different countries


communist party

communist party (plural communist parties)

(politics) A political party which advocates communist ideals.

Communist party
List of communist parties


CPP

Communist Party of the Philippines
w:Communist Party of the Philippines

(Philippine politics) Initialism of Communist Party of the Philippines.


neo-Trotskyism

(communism) Trotskyist theory updated for the contemporary era.


permanent revolution

permanent revolution (countable and uncountable, plural permanent revolutions)

(communism) The theory that socialism can be obtained without the country first experiencing a period of capitalism. The revolution must furthermore become an agent for other anticapitalist revolutions around the globe, in part to secure the revolution abroad.


pan-socialist

en-adj

pan-socialist (comparative more pan-socialist, superlative most pan-socialist)

more pan-socialist (comparative)
most pan-socialist (superlative)

(anarchism, communism) Encompassing all socialist tendencies.


stagism

(communism) The theory that society ought to pass gradually in order to arrive at communism: first through capitalism, then through socialism (the worker’s state).


anarchocommunism

His anarchocommunism, predicated on advances in technology and increased productivity, became a prevailing libertarian ideology in the 1890s, steadily elbowing out collectivist notions of distribution based on equity.

1995, Murray Bookchin, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism, AK Press, →ISBN, page 9:


libertarian Marxist

libertarian Marxist (comparative more libertarian Marxist, superlative most libertarian Marxist)

more libertarian Marxist (comparative)
most libertarian Marxist (superlative)

(communism) Of or pertaining to libertarian Marxism.


libertarian Marxist

en-noun

libertarian Marxist (plural libertarian Marxists)

(communism) One who subscribes to libertarian Marxism.


dekulakize

en-verb

dekulakize (third-person singular simple present dekulakizes, present participle dekulakizing, simple past and past participle dekulakized)

dekulakizes (present singular third-person)
dekulakizing (participle present)
dekulakized (participle past)
dekulakized (past)

From de- + kulak + -ize, a calque of Russian раскула́чить (raskuláčitʹ), from рас- (ras-) (a variant of раз- (raz-, “prefix meaning ‘removing, undoing’”)) + кула́к (kulák, “wealthy peasant”, literally “fist”) + -и (-i) + -ть (-tʹ, “suffix indicating infinitives of verbs”).

calque

раскула́чить

[W]hen, in their eagerness to achieve a higher percentage of collectivisation, they began to employ force against the middle peasants, to deprive them of the right to vote, by "dekulakising" and expropriating them, the united front with the middle peasants began to be undermined and the kulak obtained the opportunity, as is quite clear, to make fresh attempts to recover his position.

1930, J[oseph] Stalin, “Collective Farms”, in International Press Correspondence, volume 10, Berlin: Richard Neumann, →OCLC, page 341, column 2:

[page 122] Ivan ‘dekulakises’ a peasant’s pig, and delivers it to the police. […] [page 124] [A]ll this [rotting] meat had originated with pigs ‘dekulakised’ from the peasants, and slaughtered by the Activists. About a month after this fragrant event, half of the local Activists were themselves slaughtered by the peasants and the remainder fled.

1938, Ivan Solonevich, “The Soviet ‘Active’”, in Warren Harrow, transl., Russia in Chains: A Record of Unspeakable Suffering, London: Williams and Norgate Ltd […], →OCLC, pages 122 and 124:

Or admit the kulak who dekulakizes himself. But can we now entertain the illusion that kulaks on any considerable scale will go in for self-dekulakization?

1969, E[dward] H[allett] Carr, R[obert] W[illiam] Davies, Foundations of a Planned Economy: 1926–1929 (A History of Soviet Russia; 4), volume I, London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., →OCLC, page 179:

[T]he Belorussian novelist Vasil’ Bykov, following the award of the Lenin prize for his novel Znak bedy, explained that in Belorussia ‘we did not have any kulaks generally, but they required us to dekulakise’.

1989, R[obert] W[illiam] Davies, “The Repression of the Peasantry”, in Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution, Bloomington, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Mental Revolution), page 49:

Later, [Mikhail] Gorbachev asked me: "What do you think he is, exactly?" / "A farmer," I [Shevardnadze] said. "A good manager. But if you like, we can de-kulakize him. Then there won't be any farm, milk, or livestock."

1991, Eduard Shevardnadze, translated by Catherine A[nn] Fitzpatrick, The Future Belongs to Freedom, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, →ISBN, page 25:

Local officials may have had no other resort but to dekulakize illegally or tax as kulaks the households of otkhodniki in order to raise the collectivization rates or increase the landholding of the collective farms.

1993, Lynne Viola, “The Second Coming: Class Enemies in the Soviet Countryside, 1927–1935”, in J[ohn] Arch[ibald] Getty, Roberta T. Manning, editors, Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part II (Backgrounds), page 88:

As in 1930, the local officials were blamed for collectivizing and dekulakizing the people whose level of development had not prepared them for such undertakings. Personal property should not have been collectivized; the kulaks should have been limited and squeezed out—not liquidated; and the speed of reform should have been adjusted to local conditions.

1994, Yuri Slezkine, “The Conscious Collectivists”, in Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North, Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, part III (Conquerors of Backwardness), page 206:

More than one million peasant families—five million people, at least—were dekulakized during collectivization.

1996, Lynne Viola, “‘We Have No Kulaks Here’: Peasant Luddism, Evasion, and Self-help”, in Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

(transitive, historical) Usually with reference to the Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe: to dispossess a kulak (that is, a prosperous peasant) of his or her property and/or rights.


Judeo-Bolshevik

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Synonym of Judeo-Bolshevist


permanent revolutionary

permanent revolution
permanent revolution

(communism) Of or pertaining to permanent revolution.


permanent revolutionary

en-noun

permanent revolutionary (plural permanent revolutionaries)


Mao-Spontex

democratic centralism
democratic centralism

revolutionary spontaneity
revolutionary spontaneity

(communism) A neo-Leninist, Maoist, and libertarian theory and political movement in Western Europe from 1960 to 1970 advocating for democratic centralism and revolutionary spontaneity from the lower classes.


Third Period

(communism, history) According to an obsolete theory, a period shortly after the Great Depression in which capitalism would be marked by further crises and then soon collapse.


permanent revolutionist

permanent revolutionist (plural permanent revolutionists)

permanent revolutionary
permanent revolutionary#English

(communism, rare) Synonym of permanent revolutionary


Dengism

(politics) The politics and economics of the Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.


Makhnovshchina

From Russian махно́вщина (maxnóvščina) or Ukrainian махно́вщина (maxnóvščyna). Both mean "the thing relating to Makhno", and are equivalent to Махно (Maxno) + -ов (-ov) + -ский (-skij) + -ина (-ina).

(anarchism, communism) Synonym of Makhnovism


people's warrior

people's warrior (plural people's warriors)


Marxist-Leninism

Marxist-Leninism (usually uncountable, plural Marxist-Leninisms)


people's commune

people's commune (plural people's communes)

Calque from Chinese 人民公社 (rénmín gōngshè).

A scene from China’s great drought of 1960. Members of the Sanhsiang people's commune in Yiyang County form a "bucket brigade" to bring water from the Lo River, reduced to a trickle.
China Reconstructs (Peiping), November 1960

1961 May [1961 January 22], “China: Re-educating Capitalists”, in East Europe, A Monthly Review of East European Affairs, volume 10, number 5, New York: Free Europe Committee, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:

Members of the Chinghsin people's commune in Hunchun County, Kirin Province, on the anti-revisionist forefront, demonstrated through the night.

1969 March 14 [1969 March 13], “Report from Border Areas”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 50, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, page A 6:

An administrative level in rural areas of the People's Republic of China from 1958 to 1983.


Serbo-Communism

(derogatory, politics) Yugoslavian socialism when viewed as a Serb political ideology.


house-commune

Calque of Russian дом-коммуна (dom-kommuna, “house-commune”)

The newly constructed house-communes were, in fact, modest in their communal arrangements.

1979, Alena Heitlinger, Women and State Socialism, →ISBN, page 82:

Although its name and conception bears some resemblance to many projects of utopian architecture -- house-communes and communist homes -- it was tecnically born out of Lenin's head.

Communal apartments shared the utopian constructivist ideas with the house-commune in that they also had common areas of use such as the communal kitchens and bathrooms (Utekhin 2003).

2013, Jacqueline Low, Gary Bowden, The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance, →ISBN:

A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.


stagist

(communism) Of or pertaining to stagism.


red-brown

en-adj

red-brown (comparative more red-brown, superlative most red-brown)

more red-brown (comparative)
most red-brown (superlative)

(politics) Having the qualities of fascism and communism.


Anti-Comintern Pact

(history) An alliance between the Third Reich and the Empire of Japan, in opposition to the Comintern, the Soviet Union, and all communists.


Red Star

A depiction of a red star, often used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union.

Red Star over Europe: The Bolsheviks seized power firmly convinced that socialist revolution was imminent in advanced western countries. These, they believed, would come to the aid of backward Russia.
Red Star over Asia: As the prospects of revolution dimmed in the west, Lenin looked eastwards to the backward countries colonised by the great powers. Here the struggle for independence might be combined with the fight for socialism.

1978, Geoffrey Barraclough, editor, The Times Atlas of World History, page 258:

(metonymically) Socialism or communism itself.

(soccer) Red Star Belgrade (a professional football club from Belgrade, Serbia)


new class

(derogatory) The privileged ruling class of bureaucrats and Communist Party functionaries that arose in states that followed the Soviet style of communism.


Marxisation

Even the PSR moved away by then from such a view under the impact of its 'Marxisation' and its own brand-new two-stage theory produced by V. Chernov.

1986, Teodor Shanin, Russia, 1905-07: revolution as a moment of truth, page 258:

The victory of President Hugo Chavez in the 're-election' held in Venezuela on 30th July signalled yet another stage in the de facto Marxisation of Latin America, from Chile via Colombia up to Mexico.

1994, The Latin American Times - Volumes 12-15, page 1:

Marxisation was seen as a regression to a more impersonal and large scale level of analysis in which the radicalism of labelling theory's break with positivism was lost.

2010, Eugene McLaughlin, Tim Newburn, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Theory, page 161:


Maoize

en-verb

Maoize (third-person singular simple present Maoizes, present participle Maoizing, simple past and past participle Maoized)

Maoizes (present singular third-person)
Maoizing (participle present)
Maoized (participle past)
Maoized (past)

But from the 1950s onwards the radical politics pursued at home, such as the communization of the economy and the campaign to Maoize the political and social behavior of the masses, brought about a head-on collision with the Muslim minority.

1981, Asian Survey - Volume 21, page 903:

After Mao's death, the new leadership gradually decided to de-Maoize China and so begins the de-emphasis of the role of ideology, but in the process they had to project a counter-ideology.

1989, Naranarayan Das, Contemporary Chinese Politics And Foreign Policy, page 97:

That Peking was not trying to take back Hong Kong, but rather encouraging it to "Maoize" under Britain's trembling gaze, suggested to me that the Cultural Revolution was more political indoctrination than a drive for institutionalized political change.

1992, Ross Terrill, China in Our Time, page 81:

What is not so clear is that this series was actually inspired by the paintings of a Han Chinese artist, Chen Danqing, who lived in Tibet in the 1960s and '70s and specialized in portraits of Tibetans who had been neither modernized nor Maoized.

2016, Clare Harris, Photography and Tibet, page 146:

To cause to conform to the ideology of Mao Zedong and his Cultural Revolution.


goulash communism

Calque of Hungarian gulyáskommunizmus, likening the mixed dish of goulash to the mixed (less pure and strict) form of communist ideology.

(historical) The form of communism in Hungary following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, involving high living standards and economic reforms.


Communist China

(historical) Those areas of China controlled by the Communist Party of China, and the Chinese Red Army.


Dengian

en-adj

Dengian (comparative more Dengian, superlative most Dengian)

more Dengian (comparative)
most Dengian (superlative)

Of or relating to the ideas and policies of Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997), Chinese leader 1978–1992, who promoted market economics and political reform and is credited with bringing about China's rapid economic development.


Xiism

From Xi + -ism, potentially modeled on Dengism and Maoism.

Could language be introduced into the party charter that subsequent generations might look back on and identify as the early precursors for something grander, say the eventual adoption of a new "-ism" (say, "Xi-ism" with Confucian characteristics) at a future Party Congress?

2017 August 21, Carl Minzer, “‘Xi-ism’ could erupt into China’s grandiose party institutions”, in The Australian Financial Review, →OCLC, page 10:

Based on a Gramscian analytical framework inspired by Bob Jessop, this article provides an anatomy of Xiism (2012–) as an emergent hegemonic project

2019, Andreas Møller Mulvad, “Xiism as a hegemonic project in the making”, in Review of International Studies, volume 45, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, abstract, page 449:

Whether Xiism represents an updating of Maoism, reflection of a contemporary “populist” moment in global politics, or both is another question of clear relevance to the analysis of charismatic leadership in the current and likely future setting.

2021, José Pedro Zúquete, Routledge International Handbook of Charisma, →ISBN, →OCLC:

Xiism constitutes an ideology defined entirely by the metric of the Chinese struggle for greatness in the existing world.

2021, Luke Cooper, Authoritarian Contagion: The Global Threat to Democracy, Bristol University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 61:

The political philosophy practised by Xi Jinping.


propaganda of the deed

[ˌpɹɒ.pəˈɡæ̝ˑn.də əʋ ˌðə ˈdiːd]

Calque of French propagande par le fait rendered into idiomatic English, from propagande (“propaganda”) and fait (“deed, act, action”); a phrasal usage originating among 19th century insurrectionary anarchist communists.

A politically motivated act of violence, meant to broadcast an ideological message and serve as catalyst to ignite a spirit of socialist revolution among the proletariat against perceived oppressors.

propaganda pel fet

a provocative act of political violence intended to inspire imitators and foment an anarchist revolt


Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

(politics, communism) A communist ideological stream which seeks to synthesize Marxism-Leninism and Maoism and which proponents believe is the highest stage of Marxism. It was systematized by the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) and developed by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and its adherent parties.


Politburo

Any of various politburos, especially that of the Soviet Union or that of the People's Republic of China.

Kremlin

also a proper noun sense from a common noun sense, and also often a metonym for the senior Soviet leadership


proletarian internationalism

(politics) The perception of all communist revolutions as being part of a single global class struggle rather than separate localized events.


capitalist roader

en-noun

capitalist roader (plural capitalist roaders)

From capitalist + road (figurative) + -er (suffix denoting a person associated with or supporting a particular doctrine, theory, or political movement), as a calque of Chinese 走資派／走资派 (zǒuzīpài, literally “one who takes the road of capital”), a contraction of 走資本主義道路(的)當權派／走资本主义道路(的)当权派 (zǒu zīběnzhǔyì dàolù (de) dāngquánpài, “those in power who take the capitalist road”), first used in Chinese Communist Party literature in 1965.

contraction

走資本主義道路(的)當權派

(China, Maoism, chiefly historical, derogatory) 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.

8th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party


market communism

Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.

1988, The Economist, volume 306, numbers 7532-7539, page 13:

These second tier businesses too might prefer the luxury of rentier satisficing, but lacking “godfathers,” are compelled to behave more or less like neoclassical profit-seekers. They are the “market” heart of Chinese market communism; […]

2011, Steven Rosefielde, Masaaki Kuboniwa, Satoshi Mizobata, Two Asias: The Emerging Postcrisis Divide, page 432:

(politics) A form of communism that also engages to a limited extent with the free market.


production brigade

en-noun

production brigade (plural production brigades)

(historical) The basic accounting and farm production unit in the people's commune system of the People's Republic of China.


Dengoid

‘Dengoid’ is an insult towards those assumed to follow the strategy of Deng Xiaoping, Chinese political leader in the 1970s-1990s who brought in more market based reforms. Probably not a term you want to use at your next academic conference.

2020 September 22, anonymous author, “Can Dengism outmaneuver capital?”, in New Multitude:

(derogatory, slang) A Dengist, someone who follows the ideologies held by Deng Xiaoping or simply a supporter of the present day CCP.


neo-Maoist

With the exception of the remnant orthodox “leftists” and neo-Maoists, the parameters of elite factionalism have narrowed and a more centrist consensus across a range of policy issues is evident.

2000, David Shambaugh, “The Chinese State in the Post-Mao Era”, in David Shambaugh, editor, The Modern Chinese State, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 181:

In fact, the neo-Maoist Wang Renzhi, who assumed authority in the Propaganda Department after June 4, warned that the private entrepreneurs who supported the students during the demonstration revealed “a natural tie between a private economy and democracy.”

2005, Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:

One reason neo-Maoists have regained some traction in public debate (and why pro-democracy activism continues to ferment) is that although China has lifted itself from poverty, corruption and socio-economic inequality have reached levels that would make good King Zhao weep.

2014, Linda Jaivin, Beijing, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 161:

The charismatic, media-friendly Bo was aiming to get into the Politburo Standing Committee at the Party Congress in 2012, and it was widely believed that the portfolio he wanted was the one for internal security held by his hardline ally Zhou Yongkang. He enjoyed the support of leftist neo-Maoist thinkers and had links with some of the younger PLA generals.

2014, Jonathan Fenby, Will China Dominate the 21st century? (Global Future Series), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 39:

China’s neo-Maoists, as they are sometimes called, are loosely united by demands for stringent economic equality, zealous nationalism and a loathing of the capitalist West and liberal democracy.
“Many of the same ideas now animating the global populist movement have been the hallmarks of the neo-Maoist movement for over a decade,” said Jude Blanchette, a researcher in Beijing who is writing a book about the movement.
“The neo-Maoists have also clearly benefited from the rise of Xi Jinping, as he has blasted a pretty large dog whistle in their direction,” Mr. Blanchette added.

2017 April 3, Chris Buckley, “Maoists for Trump? In China, Fans Admire His Nationalist Views”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 2017-04-04:

Delegates praised Xi using Mao-era honorifics, and he became the first serving Chinese leader since Mao to have a named ideology written into the party charter, signaling that it will be in effect beyond his second five-year term, which began this week. “Their similarity is that they both want to rejuvenate the Chinese nation, they both want an independent, powerful, new China,” Song Yangbiao, a Beijing-based neo-Maoist freelance journalist, told Reuters.[...]Neo-Maoists dismiss criticisms of Mao as smears by Westerners and revisionists, and the group vociferously defends Mao and his policies in articles online, with occasional public shaming of those who slight his legacy.[...]While Xi has not lavished praise on Mao or his policies, he has defended his “mistakes” and has drawn a line against attempts to revise the Party’s official history, pleasing the neo-Maoists.

2017 October 27, Christian Shepherd, “China's neo-Maoists welcome Xi's new era, but say he is not the new Mao”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2018-06-24:

Censors often delete articles on WeChat groups run by neo-Maoists, who denounce the “bureaucrat-capitalists” running China.

2021 July 2, “A future, with Chinese characteristics”, in The Economist, volume 439, number 9251, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12:

A person who believes in a (post-reform and opening-up) version of Maoist ideology.

uusmaolainen

person who believes in a Maoist ideology


red terror

red terror (countable and uncountable, plural red terrors)

Red is the traditional color of the communist movement, which was the official ideology of the Soviets during early Soviet Russia.

(politics) Coordinated violence committed by communists, socialists, or other left-wing groups against (actual or perceived) class enemies.


mutual aid

From mutual + aid. Popularised by the anarcho-communist philosopher, Peter Kropotkin.

(anarchism, communism, philosophy, by extension) A voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit.


Second Red Scare

(historical) A period in the United States between the 1940s and 1950s marked by a widespread fear of communism and socialism; McCarthyism.


First Red Scare

(historical) A period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left extremism, including but not limited to Bolshevism, socialism, and anarchism.


Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism (uncountable)

From the term fully automated luxury communism, proposed by the British journalist Aaron Bastani in 2014, which suggests that automation will make work and scarcity obsolete. The Gay and Space parts were later added by activists to suggest that this utopia would also end all persecution of LGBTQ people and become more advanced than modern society.

Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism

(politics, Internet slang, LGBT) A utopian society proposed by far-left activists where gender, wealth, and work become obsolete and everyone lives in luxury.


eat the rich

Attributed to the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The original quotation was: “Quand le peuple n’aura plus rien à manger, il mangera le riche.” (“When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.”)
Became popular in the 21st-century United States as an anti-capitalist motto in left-wing online communities.

Eat the Rich:

1993, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jim Vallance (lyrics and music), “Eat the Rich” (track 2), in Get a Grip, performed by Aerosmith, Los Angeles: Geffen Records:

There have been many cries to “eat the rich” over recent years in relation to white collar crime.

2011 January, Diane Wiley, “Eat the Rich: Juror Questionnaires for White Collar Cases”, in The Jury Expert, volume 23, number 1, Timonium, Maryland: American Society of Trial Consultants, →ISSN, page 43:

There is something thrilling about an artwork that does not just investigate, explore or expose questions about today, but makes explicit the injustices of the present system, proudly brandishing a call to eat the rich and fight a class war.

2018 June 7, Chris Hayes, “Democracia, ORDER”, in Circa Art Magazine, →JSTOR, retrieved 2022-12-06:

There's this whole cycle of eat-the-rich movies right now with “Joker” and “Parasite.” How do you feel knowing the movie you’ve made and then seeing those other movies coming out?

2019 November 28, Mark Olsen, “‘Knives Out’ Ending Explained: How Rian Johnson’s Socially Relevant Mystery Pays Tribute to the Past”, in Los Angeles Times:

The eat-the-rich movie is directed by Mark Mylod, whose recent work includes episodes of “Succession,” “Shameless,” and “Game of Thrones” […]

2022 July 10, Jordan Hoffman, “‘What, Are We Eating a Rolex?’ ‘The Menu’ Full Trailer Is Revealed”, in GoldDerby:

First of all, I want to say I’m not a fan of the, how do I say, advertisement of the movie as an “eat the rich” movie because what I actually tried to do was to portray everybody as nice.

2022 November 4, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Ruben Östlund, “‘Triangle of Sadness’ with Director Ruben Östlund”, in Financial Times, London:

(slang, politics, idiomatic) An expression of contempt towards capitalism and the rich, demanding an equitable redistribution of wealth.

كلوا الأغنياء

expression of contempt towards the rich, capitalism and widespread poverty


Five Poisons

(politics) Five groups regarded by the Communist Party of China as threats to their rule: Uyghur and Tibetan supporters of respective independence movements, Falun Gong adherents, and supporters of Chinese democracy and the independence of Taiwan.


Red Russia

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


withering away of the state

withering away of the state (uncountable)

(politics, Marxism, communism) The proposed situation where, in a very socialistic society, people govern themselves as a commune without needing a government or law enforcement.


pinkoid

The greater shame on whom? The philandering public official, (latest in a long line of same), or the overly reactive, pinkoid commie leftist reactionaries who had to stoop so low in a failed attempt to bring him down?

2003 July 6, goul...@aol.com, “OT: Bush Resume (Ouch!) (Not my work)”, in rec.boats (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-19:

Those pinkoid lesbocrats from Massachusetts just don't get it. We americans are god's chosen people (along with all jews of course).

2004 April 5, Zach Ivalotovitch, “10 MORE SOLDIERS KILLED FOR BUSH'S LIE”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-19:


National Bolshevik

National Bolshevik (plural National Bolsheviks)

An adherent of National Bolshevism; a nazbol.


National Bolshevism

A neo-fascist ultranationalist ideology primarily originated from Russia that combines strong elements of classical fascism with economical communism.

民族ボルシェヴィズム

みんぞくボルシェヴィズム


Communazism

Alternative letter-case form of communazism.


CommuNaziism

Alternative letter-case form of communaziism.


communazi

If this *is* the case, CommuNazi Klinton is really going to have fun, isn't he?

1997 March 26, Dale Stanton, “CLINTON PROPOSALS BAN RIFLE HUNTING”, in rec.hunting (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-01:

>and its trading wealth was derived from the artificial situation created by China and Britain.
Yeah, the "artificial situation" of not buying into a lot of Erbypoo's favorite communazi theft schemes.

1998 May 11, Mike<alt.politics.media (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-01:

Do I detect a bit of pique in the style of the ultra hard core communazi left?

2002 October 28, Roy Jose Lorr, “Masons and ultra right politics!”, in alt.freemasonry (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-01:

In short, you "don't care" when your country becomes a communazi nanny-state, and the reason for that is because you're a *moron* with a slave-mentality.

2004 January 12, Mike1, “Ephedra Ban”, in alt.support.thyroid (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-01:


communazism

Try thinking of "winning" in terms of applying to THAT WHICH SURVIVES, the Proof thereof being that Fascism, Naziism, and Communism SURVIVE to this very day in the Form of CommuNaziism, via the Very Same Philosophy, NIHILISM, under the Control and Manipulation of Change Agents, who Ruthlessly, Relentlessly, and Shamelessly Exploit the Very Worst and Most Vulnerable Shortcomings Inherent in the FALLEN FLESH of human nature whereby they Obtain CONSENT for the Next Holocaust.

2001 March 15, Fre...@liberty.com, “Moon Hoax?”, in alt.extropians (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-01:

The danger is that we'll Amand Hammer ourselves into communaziism.

2001 October 2, Rex F. May, “Total Evil”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-01:

It's communazism, S.S.

2003 May 23, Mike Schneider, “Hollywood goes paranoid”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-01:

The Fair and Balanced Weasel ....
[AKA the donut-swilling FATSO whore-fluffer-shill-for-communazism who pulled his picture off the 'net because his critics loved to cite its URL of him looking like the boozed fuckhead in that notorious, staged 50's pic of a wild biker surrounded by beer bottles.]

2003 October 5, Mike1, “Hollywood goes paranoid”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-01:

50 years of propaganda have given the American people the idea that any ideas opposed to the Constitution are evil. In their minds, Nazism and Communism are two sides of the same coin, and that there are two ideologies in the world: American constitutionalism, which is equated with freedom, and Communazism, which is equated with slavery.

1998 June 1, Bryan Cowan, “Anarchism = Nazism? Get a load of this...”, in alt.society.anarchy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-01:


WPK

Workers' Party of Korea
w:Workers' Party of Korea