All 18 Uses
communism
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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- He's darn near a Communist, that's what people say.†
Chpt 3 *communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Your father would turn in his grave if he saw it, old family place been sold to niggers, and Ben's place turned to a motorcycle shop, that son of yours tearing down the Brumsteads' wooden fences and the other son up there in Buffalo working with the Communists.†
Chpt 3communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- And De Gaulle over there making friends with the Russians, no more grateful for all we been doing for him than a mad dog with the rabies, and the English no better with all their talk, pure Communists theirselves, just playing in the enemy's hands.†
Chpt 3
- You'd see them in the cafeteria primping and preening and puk-puk-padokking, speech-making at each other, some of them, the rest of them nodding, very solemn, as if it were all oh so interesting, talking about books nobody past the age of twelve would read all the way through except to punish himself, yammering about Communism and Capitalism and Christianity and the Good Lay, and back in the dorm all the baby professors would do imitations, learning the gestures and the Right Quotations, prattling about Tillich and Bishop Pike and Mr. Fromm, and relaxing their minds in the great American way with talk about baseball and football and cunts, and the brave stupid ones would talk about defending†
Chpt 4communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- She said, "Even raving Communists believe in something."†
Chpt 4communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- When he talked about the Communists the veins in his temples would pump.†
Chpt 5
- He was a Communist Sympathizer, you know.†
Chpt 6communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- There's a great many more Jews and Communists and Catholics and Nigroes now.†
Chpt 6communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Well, these days, what with all those politicians ...The Mayor's a Communist, you know.†
Chpt 6communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The family's been Communist for years.†
Chpt 6
- So one understood Germany, or the Chinese Communists, or Africa.†
Chpt 7communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- It was true (as Benson would later learn) that Nuper was a distributor of pamphlets, an organizer, a devout radical—a Communist, in fact—willing to lend his talents to any cause he believed to be worthy—and whatever one might finally think of him, he had his most definite, most righteous beliefs.†
Chpt 10communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- It was a mad letter—she said she'd been captured by Communists—and Paxton could not make out how to deal with it.†
Chpt 11communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- It turned out in the end that, though I was certainly right, my student was, as it happened, a Communist.†
Chpt 11communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- You a Communist?†
Chpt 13
- Anyway, I have reason to think my husband has been secretly investigating some mysterious goings-on at the Mayor's house, some kind of political I-don't-know-what, not Communists, perhaps, but something.†
Chpt 16communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Same with the Communists.†
Chpt 19
- When the whole thing blew up, sixteen years ago, she wrote letters to the paper that the Communists had her husband locked up in a cellar, whole town full of secret agents, according to Kathleen.†
Chpt 19
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)