All 29 Uses
communism
in
The House of the Spirits
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- Trueba would not listen to this sort of thing: it smacked, he said, of Communism.†
Chpt 2 *communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- They're capable of voting for the Communists, just like the miners in the North, who might push the whole country over the brink with their strikes—and now of all times, when the price of copper is at its peak.†
Chpt 2communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- It was the one time in their lives they showed the peasants a trace of intimacy: pal this and pal that, don't worry, patron, I'm on your team, you can count on me, that's the way I like it, pal, it's nice to see you have a patriotic conscience, you know the liberals and radicals are all a bunch of morons and the Communists are atheist bastards who eat little children.†
Chpt 2
- Since he was a child, the boy had been making surreptitious journeys into town to borrow books, read the newspapers, and converse with the local schoolteacher, a fervent Communist who years later would be shot dead by a bullet between the eyes.†
Chpt 4communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Important things are happening in the world," Pedro Tercero countered, following up with the speech of the Communist teacher or Father Jose Duke Maria.†
Chpt 5
- All Blanca remembered of the conversation was that he had fired Pedro Tercero Garcia with the warning that he not set foot on the property again, because he had caught him spreading Communist ideas among the tenants.†
Chpt 5
- "You look under any stone and a Communist jumps out!" he said.†
Chpt 10
- Not even the Communists.†
Chpt 10communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Not even Colonel Hurtado, who saw traitors everywhere he looked, considered the Communists a danger.†
Chpt 10
- On more than one occasion he explained to Trueba that the Communist Party was composed of four bums without any statistical importance who followed Moscow's instructions with a piety worthy of a better cause.†
Chpt 10communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Yes, but it's not just Communists.†
Chpt 10communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- You have no business being there with all those Communists!†
Chpt 11
- He refused to be provoked by his father, who seized every opportunity to warn him of the handiwork of international Communism and the chaos that would sweep the country in the improbable event of a victory of the left.†
Chpt 11communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The only time Jaime lost his patience was one morning when he awoke to find the city plastered with angry posters that portrayed a full-bellied, lonely woman vainly attempting to wrest her son from the arms of a Communist soldier who was dragging him off to Moscow.†
Chpt 11communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- He also tried to place his granddaughter under surveillance, for he thought that since she moved in a circle of Communists, at any moment someone might mistreat her because of her relationship with him.†
Chpt 12communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The new authorities announced that they had nothing to do with actions of this sort and had never given orders to cut beards or slacks, and that it was probably the work of Communists disguised as soldiers attempting to cast aspersions on the armed forces and make the citizenry hate them.†
Chpt 13
- Everyone knows I was the Marxists' chief enemy, the first to oppose Communist dictatorship and to dare say in public that only the military could prevent the country from falling into the clutches of the left.†
Chpt 13communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- He asked me— no, he ordered me—to show up at the cathedral at eleven the next morning to attend the Te Deum with which the nation would express its gratitude to God for the victory over Communism.†
Chpt 13communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- If you people hadn't acted, the Communists would have staged a coup themselves, and right this minute all of us here plus another fifty thousand people would be dead.†
Chpt 13communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- "Communist priests!" he shouted.†
Chpt 13communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The newspapers said that the beggars in the streets, a sight that had not been seen in years, had been sent by international Communism to discredit the military junta and undermine the return to order and progress.†
Chpt 13communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Soldiers broke into his house, ransacked his snail collection, his shells, his butterflies, his bottles, the ship figureheads he had rescued from so many seas, his books, his paintings, and his unfinished poems, looking for subversive weapons and hidden Communists, until his old poet's heart began to falter.†
Chpt 13communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- It's a shame he was a Communist!" the senator told his granddaughter.†
Chpt 13communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- People had left their little bundles wrapped in newspaper at the doors of the churches, because they were afraid to take them to the barracks, but Senator Trueba, who had real weapons in his possession, was not the least bit worried; his had been stockpiled for killing Communists, as everybody knew.†
Chpt 13communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- All this, he continued to maintain, was a monstrous Communist lie; but in the remote event that it was true, it would still not be Alba's responsibility to shoulder the burden, but the government's or, as a last resort, the Church's.†
Chpt 13communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- that she took it into her head to help fugitives get asylum in the foreign embassies, something she did without thinking, I'm sure, without realizing that the country is at war, whether war against international Communism or its own people it's hard to tell, but war one way or the other, and these things are punishable by law, but Alba always has her head in the clouds and doesn't realize she's in danger, she doesn't do it to be mean, really, just the opposite, she does it because her heart knows no limits, just like her grandmother, who still runs around ministering to the poor behind my back in the abandoned wing of the house, my clairvoyant Clara, and anyone who tells Alba people are aft†
Chpt 14communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- hear a word of her again, I've spent a whole month looking for her and I'm going crazy, these are the things that make the junta look so bad abroad and give the United Nations reason to screw around with human rights, at first I didn't want to hear about the dead, the tortured, and the disappeared, but now I can't keep thinking they're just Communist lies, because even the gringos, who were the first to help the military and sent their own pilots to bombard the Presidential Palace, are scandalized by all the killing, it's not that I'm against repression, I understand that in the beginning you have to be firm if you want a return to order, but things have gotten out of hand, they're going†
Chpt 14communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- granddaughter before it's too late, I've gone weeks without sleeping, I've been to every office, every ministry, seen all my old friends, and no one's been able to do anything, they don't want to see me anymore, they make me wait outside for hours, please, Transito, ask me for anything you want, I'm still a wealthy man even though under the Communists things got a little tough for me, you probably heard, you must have seen it in the papers and on television, a real scandal, those ignorant peasants ate my breeding bulls and hitched my racing horses to the plow and in less than a year Tres Marias was in ruins, but now I've filled the place with tractors and I'm picking up the pieces, just as†
Chpt 14communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- He used each treatment to regale me with his personal theory about how to rid the country—and if possible, the world—of Communism.†
Chpt Epil.communism = 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)