All 50 Uses
communism
in
Native Son
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- There was a slow fade-out, while the commentator's voice ran on: Shortly after a scene like this, shocked Mama and Papa Dalton summoned Mary home by wire from her winter vacation and denounced her Communist friend.†
Book 1communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- what's a Communist?†
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- That guy who was kissing old man Dalton's daughter was a Communist and her folks didn't like it.†
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- Rich people don't like Communists.†
Book 1communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- I bet the reason the old man was so mad about that Communist was "cause his gal was too open about it"."†
Book 1communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- No wonder they called her a Communist in the movies.†
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- He had heard about unions; in his mind unions and Communists were linked.
Book 1 *communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property
- He didn't want to meet any Communists.†
Book 1communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- But if she had gone to meet those Communists?†
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- And what were Communists like, anyway?†
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- What made people Communists?†
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- He remembered seeing many cartoons of Communists in newspapers and always they had flaming torches in their hands and wore beards and were trying to commit murder or set things on fire.†
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- All he could recall having heard about Communists was associated in his mind with darkness, old houses, people speaking in whispers, and trade unions on strike.†
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- That's what we Communists are fighting.†
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- Bigger listened" he knew that they were talking Communism and he tried to understand.†
Book 1communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Below it he read a line that said: Issued by the Communist Party of the United States.†
Book 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- He had to put those Communist pamphlets in his room right away.†
Book 2
- "Yeah" one of them Communists."†
Book 2communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- "He talked about the Communists"."†
Book 2
- He knew now that Britten was trying to find out if he were a Communist.†
Book 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- You are a Communist, you goddamn black sonofabitch!†
Book 2
- I ain't no Communist!†
Book 2
- Next time he would do better" he had let Britten trap him on that Communist business.†
Book 2
- He would make one of those signs, like the ones he had seen on the Communist pamphlets.†
Book 2
- They would go after Jan. The "Red" he had signed to the letter and the hammer and curving knife would make them look for Communists.†
Book 2communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- You see, Peggy, I'm trying to find out if he's been around Communists"."†
Book 2
- "He talked about Communists"."†
Book 2
- He said that Mr. Dalton's trying to slander the Communist Party by having him arrested.†
Book 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- "Beneath the signature is a scrawled emblem of the Communist Party, the hammer and the sickle," said Mr. Dalton.†
Book 2
- Do you think the Communists did it?†
Book 2communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- GIRL BELIEVED HIDING OUT WITH COMMUNISTS.†
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- He turned to the story, reading, Did the foolish dream of solving the problem of human misery and poverty by dividing her father's real estate millions among the lowly force Mary Dalton to leave the palatial Hyde Park home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Dalton, 4605 Drexel Boulevard, and take up life under an assumed name with her long-haired friends in the Communist movement?†
Book 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- This was the question that police sought to answer late tonight as they grilled Jan Erlone, executive secretary of the Labor Defenders, a Communist "front" organization in which it was said that Mary Dalton held a membership in defiance of her father's wishes.†
Book 2
- Bigger knew that they were going to phone in more information to their papers" they were going to tell about Jan's trying to convert him to Communism, the Communist literature Jan had given him, the rum, the half-packed trunk being taken down to the station, and lastly, about the kidnap note and the demand for ten thousand dollars.†
Book 2communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Bigger knew that they were going to phone in more information to their papers" they were going to tell about Jan's trying to convert him to Communism, the Communist literature Jan had given him, the rum, the half-packed trunk being taken down to the station, and lastly, about the kidnap note and the demand for ten thousand dollars.†
Book 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Did this Erlone fellow talk to you about Communism?†
Book 2communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- DALTON FAMILY ASK RELEASE OF COMMUNIST SUSPECT.†
Book 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The car started and he opened the paper again, reading: A servant's discovery early yesterday evening of a crudely penciled ransom note demanding $10,000 for the return of Mary Dalton, missing Chicago heiress, and the Dalton family's sudden demand for the release of Jan Erlone, Communist leader held in connection with the girl's disappearance, were the startling developments in a case which is baffling local and state police.†
Book 2
- The note, bearing the signature of "Red" and the famed hammer and sickle emblem of the Communist Party, was found sticking under the front door by Peggy O"Flagherty, a cook and housekeeper in the Henry Dalton residence in Hyde Park.†
Book 2
- the Communist pamphlets,†
Book 2
- Reiterating that police had framed him as a part of a drive to oust Communists from Chicago, Erlone demanded that the charges upon which he had been originally held be made public.†
Book 2communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- COMMUNIST LEADER PROVES ALIBI.†
Book 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- tragedy of Communism and racial mixture".†
Book 2communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- raiding numerous Communist headquarters throughout the city,†
Book 2communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- "But there ain" no usa draggin" no Communism in this thing, Mistah.†
Book 3communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- If you had not dragged the name of the Communist Party into this murder, I'd not be here," Max said.†
Book 3communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- "Hell, this boy signed the name of the Communist Party to the kidnap note"."†
Book 3
- His trying to blame the Communists for his crime was a natural reaction for him.†
Book 3communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- He had heard men like you lie about the Communists so much that he believed them.†
Book 3
- Communism!†
Book 3communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Definitions:
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(1)
(communism) an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)