Antedating of "Communist"

[Fred Shapiro]

communist (OED 1842)

1841 _Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics_ 25 Dec. 3 (America's
Historical Newspapers)  In France, the prisons are overcharged, by reason
of the disturbances in the departments, and the conspiracy of the
_Communists_.

Fred Shapiro


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