Antedating of "Communist"
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Jul 31 02:15:35 UTC 2006
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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