Talk:communist
12/08/2005 Checked the italian translation
In de Nederlandse Nieuwe Spelling is het "communist" met een C ipv een K. In Dutch "Nieuwe Spelling" it's written as "communist" with a C instead of a K. 82.161.38.100 19:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Most common usage not included
[edit]Probably even more frequent than all the academic literature that has used the word "communist", the most common, everyday use of this word generally means something closer to, "Somebody with whom the speaker is in disagreement." The vast majority of the population has no idea what communism is and anything that they don't like will often be written off as communism. In the interests of accurately reflecting the way words are used, an entry that reflects this reality is in order.
Philologick (talk) 19:03, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
- Better: "A leftist with whom the speaker is in disagreement", right-wingers are not called communists. A right-winger with whom the speaker is in disagreement can similarly be called a fascist. Mölli-Möllerö (talk) 19:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense "Russian" and "Slav". I suspect we might be missing an {{altcaps}} of sense 3 of Communist ("Any citizen of a country controlled by such a party"), which is probably what "Russian" is getting at and should be changed to. - -sche (discuss) 02:46, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
- Failed. - TheDaveRoss 17:49, 9 June 2023 (UTC)