communism

IPA: kˈɑmjʌnɪzʌm

Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
The ideology of political parties that use the term Communist in their names, usually Marxist and Leninist.
The socio-economic system based on such parties' ideologies.
(US, informal) A state of affairs perceived as oppressive, overly arbitrary, or totalitarian.

Examples of "communism" in Sentences

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Stalin reserves the term communism exclusively to what Marx called the "higher phase" of communism.
Throwing out the term communism has all the demagoguery of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and recalls a dark chapter in American history.
Hess had introduced Marx to the term communism, and now Marx had convinced Hess that the definition of communism had to come out of an understanding of political economy.
The pair, with Engels, continued to agonize over a clear definition of what they meant by the term communism and over a statement of principles—a mission statement—for a communist party.
In the 1840s the term communism came into use to denote loosely a militant leftist form of socialism; it was associated with the writings of Étienne Cabet and his theories of common ownership.
The term communism was associated with the revolutionary transformation of the means of production and other private property into property of the society, subsuming therefore the very concept of property - such was the character of what can be considered to be the first modern communist movement, the