What is "communists"

Usage examples of "communists".

Not because liberals were necessarily Communists, though many were, but because they had been morally blind to Communism.

Democrats ran for office on a policy of letting Communists dominate Eastern Europe and run wild through China.

Wheeling, West Virginia, speech, in which he said he had in his hand the names of fifty-seven card-carrying Communists in the State Department.

The Wheeling speech is often described as if it might as easily have been a speech on housing, but on a whim, McCarthy decided to give a speech on Communists in the State Department and decided anti-Communism was a good gig.

Similarly, in The Manchurian Candidate, one of scores of Hollywood movies popularizing lies about McCarthy, the McCarthy figure chooses fifty-seven as the number of Communists in the government after seeing it on a bottle of Heinz ketchup.

Sneering at McCarthy today because the only people who call themselves Communists are harmless cranks is like sneering at the Sabin vaccine since, really, almost no one gets polio anymore.

Indeed, contrary to their own self-advertisements, liberals were wildly enthusiastic about the most egregious civil liberties violations, provided Communists were not disturbed.

Once the atrocity of having to tell the truth about being Communists had passed, actors and actresses began leaping at the chance to appear before congressional committees.

Devoted Communists publicly confessed to stunning collaboration with the Nazis in comically absurd conspiracies.

For all the bellyaching, Horowitz says, fired Communists fared pretty well.

American Communists in general bears little resemblance to these lurid images.

The more he railed against Communists working for the government, the higher his approval ratings soared.

In addition, McCarthy may have said he had a list of 205 Communists in the State Department rather than 57, as he later claimed.

They just wanted to know whether McCarthy had claimed to have the names of 205 or 57 Communists at the State Department.

But long, gaseous books have insistently asserted that McCarthy said he had the names of 205 Communists rather than 57 Communists.