communist party, n.Definitions

The Communist Party (n.) gave ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠fresh hope, in Republican Spain, to the frightened bourgeoisie, forgetting its own theories and promising to defend bourgeois class interests.

Communist Party (n.) meant, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for those inside it in America, not backing Stalin but a whole life — picket lines, civil rights, and a summer camp in the Catskills for the unemployed seamstress.