commies
Informal term, Marxists
Commies is informal, often disparaging slang for communists.
The term peaked during Cold War anticommunism, when commies served as shorthand for Soviet sympathizers or anyone suspected of leftist politics.
Today it appears mostly in casual speech or with ironic distance: My grandfather still thinks the commies are coming for his guns.
Moscow's fortified government seat
- LeninSoviet state founder
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
- USSRFormer communist superpower
Red Army · KGB · collectivization · Politburo · commissar · apparatchik · show trials · purges
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- Das KapitalFoundational socialist economic critique
Marx · Engels · means of production · alienation · vanguard · class consciousness · exploitation · surplus value
Politically-motivated accusation without evidence
- red scareMass anti-communist hysteria
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- domino theoryContagious political collapse belief
- Iron CurtainCold War's political divide
propaganda · espionage · blacklist · HUAC · fellow traveler · pinko · subversion · informant
Crimson-colored things collectively
- pinkosPejorative for socialist-leaning people
- leftiesNon-dominant-hand majority
- fellow travelersSympathizers without official membership
- radicalsAdvocates for fundamental change
revolutionaries · agitators · subversives · party members · ideologues · true believers · apparatchiks · comrades
Seeking fundamental systemic change
- extremistOne holding fringe views
- militantAggressive cause supporter
- insurgentOne who revolts
- subversiveSeeking to undermine authority
agitator · dissident · zealot · hardliner · firebrand · guerrilla · insurrectionist · provocateur
Kremlin
Moscow's fortified government seat
- LeninSoviet state founder
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
USSR · Red Army · KGB · collectivization · Politburo · commissar · apparatchik · show trials · purges · hammer and sickle
proletariat
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
Das Kapital · Marx · Engels · means of production · alienation · vanguard · class consciousness · exploitation · surplus value · workers unite
McCarthyism
Politically-motivated accusation without evidence
- red scareMass anti-communist hysteria
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- domino theoryContagious political collapse belief
Iron Curtain · propaganda · espionage · blacklist · HUAC · fellow traveler · pinko · subversion · informant · loyalty oath
reds
Crimson-colored things collectively
- pinkosPejorative for socialist-leaning people
- leftiesNon-dominant-hand majority
- fellow travelersSympathizers without official membership
radicals · revolutionaries · agitators · subversives · party members · ideologues · true believers · apparatchiks · comrades · sympathizers
revolutionary
Seeking fundamental systemic change
subversive · agitator · dissident · zealot · hardliner · firebrand · guerrilla · insurrectionist · provocateur · cell
commiescapitalists
Owners of productive wealth
plutocrats · robber barons · fat cats · libertarians · bourgeoisie
commiesanti-communists
Opponents of Marxist ideology
red-baiters · McCarthyites · freedom fighters · patriots · right-wingers
commiesfascists
Authoritarian nationalist adherents
righties · Nazis · right-wingers · reactionaries · wingnuts
- out of commissionUnable to function
- oversight committeePanel monitoring institutional conduct
- executive committeeOrganization's top decision-makers
- planning committeeGroup organizing future actions
- committee chairGroup's presiding leader
- Federal Trade CommissionAgency overseeing marketplace fairness