All 19 Uses of
communism
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- In some ways they are so strict you might as well have a Communist for your parents, but when it comes to something you really wish they'd notice, oh, well!†
Chpt 1communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- —for evidence of poor U.S. leadership, the missile gap, and proof of the Communist threat.†
Chpt 2
- Let them go Communist if they feel like it.†
Chpt 2
- How I did it was spying on the African Communist Boy Scouts.†
Chpt 2
- They turned some pages and showed me a cartoon: big, fat, bald-headed Nikita Khrushchev in his Communist uniform was holding hands and dancing with a skinny cannibal native with big lips and a bone in his hair.†
Chpt 2
- Mother said, "Now is he the one they're saying is a Communist?"†
Chpt 2
- The Communists would help the Congo?†
Chpt 3communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Béene, do you know what a Communist is?†
Chpt 3communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- They had emergency money available to help their citizens in reaching safety after the Communist crisis with Lumumba and all of that hubbub.†
Chpt 5
- Then I found it, an article called "Will Africa Go Communist?"†
Chpt 5
- I can picture the Georgia housewives shuddering at the Communist challenge, quickly turning the page on that black devil Lumumba with the pointed chin.†
Chpt 5
- Besides, Angola is an extremely Communistic nation if you ask me.
Chpt 5 *communistic = having an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property
- Her own daughter planning to move to a communistic nation where the roads are practically made of wall-to-wall land mines?†
Chpt 5communistic = relating to an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- We argued about positively everything: even communism!†
Chpt 5communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- For now he was a Communist devil.†
Chpt 5communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Or it's a commerce of imagined dreads, the Bethlehem housewives somehow convinced that a distant, black Communist devil will cost them some quarter in their color-matched living rooms.†
Chpt 5
- Rachel informs me I've had my brains washed by a Communist plot.†
Chpt 5
- She reminds me once again of the Communist threat.†
Chpt 5
- And then it comes to me suddenly, from childhood, my first stammering definition of communism to Anatole: They do not fear the Lord, and they think everybody should have the same kind of house.†
Chpt 5communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society