Communism and Democracy

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Communism noun - A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society.

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Democracy is an antonym for communism in socialist government topic.

Democracy noun - Government in which the supreme power is held by the people and used by them directly or indirectly through representation.

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Communism is an antonym for democracy.

pure	pure communism	pure democracy
representative	representative communism	representative democracy
perfect	perfect communism	perfect democracy
future	future communism	future democracy
Other adjectives: free, true, corrupt, actual, real, social, Christian, modern, capitalist, western.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev named his policy of letting Eastern European countries decide for themselves whether they wanted communism or democracy the "Sinatra Doctrine," after Sinatra's song "My Way".

Source: One Of Us / Political Geeks
The manifesto is no more a reference point for what communism is than the US Democratic Party Platform is a reference for what democracy is.

Source: I Am Not Shazam / Real Life
Highly atypical for a nation using such nomenclature, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has never practiced any form of communism, not even the In-Name-Only version used by modern China, though it's still got the usual lack of democracy.

Source: Peoples Republic Of Tyranny / Real Life

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