In 1927, "Metropolis" was attacked by the German left as implicitly fascistic, and by the right for its Communist tendencies.
When he sought French nationality in 1940, he was turned down on the ground that he was an anarchist with Communist tendencies.
As the Communist International inspired by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia formed, a Left Communist tendency developed in the Comintern's German, Dutch and Bulgarian sections.
In the United Kingdom, Sylvia Pankhurst's group, the Communist Party (British Section of the Third International), also identified with the Left Communist tendency.
However, all of the Left Communist tendencies opposed what they called "Frontism".
Smuts had once remarked that he "doffs his cap to Stalin" and the NP presented this remark as proof of Smuts's latent Communist tendencies.
Effectively, the CPC under Mao's leadership became the rallying forces of a parallel international Communist tendency.
Indeed, Maerdy in the Rhondda Valley along with Chopwell in Tyne and Wear were two of a number of communities known as Little Moscow for their Communist tendencies.
Suspicions of the Front's Communist tendencies are also rampant, and many in the two main opposing parties, the National Liberal Party and the National Peasants Party, are convinced that the Front will cling to its power.
And another is to see panic in the face of a failed bullfighter of Communist tendencies when I say, as a joke, I might kiss him.