# The Communists — The Conscience of a Conservative character guide

> The Communists in The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Communists, The Communists, Communists, dissident Communists, their, its

**First appearance:** 0001-the-conscience-of-a-conservative

## Who they are

The totalitarian adversary whose collectivist creed subordinates the individual soul to the state, serving as the narrator's starkest example of everything conservatism must resist.

## Relationships

### [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conscience_of_a_conservative_se/characters/narrator)

_rivalry_

The narrator treats communists as a direct ideological enemy to be exposed and defeated.

### [The Kremlin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conscience_of_a_conservative_se/characters/the_kremlin)

_friendship_

The Communists are depicted as agents or allies of the Kremlin in spreading revolution.

## In the story

### [X: The Soviet Menace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conscience_of_a_conservative_se/chapters/x-the-soviet-menace)

Described as a political movement relying on small cadres of literate activists, not poverty; targeted by proposed hardline policies.

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