12 sentences with 'communism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word communism and other words derived from it.
• « A scholarly work on Greek history, Frank Frost's Greek Society, describes the Spartans as "an experiment in elitist communism". »
• « In 1922, the weak King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele III, appointed Mussolini as Prime Minister, seeing in him a bulwark against the threat of communism (and bowing to the growing strength of the Fascist Party). »
• « Jews had invented communism, capitalism, pacifism, liberalism, democracy - everything that supposedly weakened Germany from Hitler's perspective. »
• « Even in the capitalist countries of the West, intellectuals, students and workers were often sympathetic to communism as well, despite the apparent mismatch between the utopian promise of Marxism and the reality of a police state in the USSR. »
• « The USSR whose official political ideology, Marxism-Leninism, proclaimed the end of class warfare and the declared goal of achieving true communism, a workers' state in which all would enjoy the fruits of science and industrialism and no one would be left behind. »
• « Of all forms of government, communism was supposed to be the most genuinely democratic, responding to the will of the people rather than to fake representatives bought with the money of the rich, and yet decision-making in the USSR was in the hands of high-level members of the communist party, the so-called apparatchiks, or bureaucrats. »
• « At times, independence movements such as those in India and Ghana managed to avoid being caught up in the Cold War. At other times, however, countries like Vietnam became battlegrounds where the conflict between capitalism and communism erupted in massive bloodshed. »
• « In 1950, North Korean troops backed by Soviet arms and allied Chinese troops invaded the south in the name of reunifying the country under communist rule. In this case, both the Soviets and the Chinese directly supported an invasion in the name of expanding communism, something that would become much less common in later conflicts. »
• « When the Korean War broke out a few years later, the United States stepped in to support France, convinced by events in Korea that communism was spreading like a virus throughout Asia. »
• « Thus, with the right compromised by fascism and the left by communism, the parties in power were variations of the centre-left and centre-right, usually parties that fell under the categories of "Socialists" (or, in Britain, Labour) and "Christian Democrats". »
• « Left thinkers came to reject both the obvious injustices of Soviet-style communism and the injustices of their own capitalist societies. »
• « In Eastern Europe, the opposite is true: while the post-war order of command economy, communism and authoritarian one-party rule was maintained almost until the 1980s, in the end the whole system imploded, with lasting consequences for the region and the world. »