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Contemporary Examples

After all, the interventions in Guatemala and other places were carried out for a noble causestopping the spread of communism.

After World War II, anxiety turned more toward the Cold War threat of communism.

For the anti-Semite, both capitalism and communism are Jewish plots.

Keynes well understood the attractions of communism to the affluent young.

The absence of those rights, she said in her speech, is an abuse of power and principle equal to slavery or communism.

Historical Examples

Much, no doubt, could be done even by what is now called communism, but what in earlier days was called Christianity.

An early form of communism with a sort of military-priesthood at the top.

communism, Socialism abolish private property and push us back into Collectivism.

communism possesses a language which every people can understand.

I hasten to say, that if Protection can be and ought to be likened to communism, it is not that which I am about to attack.

British Dictionary definitions for communism Expand

advocacy of a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community

any social, economic, or political movement or doctrine aimed at achieving such a society

(usually capital) a social order or system of government established by a ruling Communist Party, esp in the former Soviet Union

(often capital) (mainly US) any leftist political activity or thought, esp when considered to be subversive

communal living; communalism

Word Origin

C19: from French communisme, from communcommon

Word Origin and History for communism Expand

"social system based on collective ownership," 1843, from French communisme (c.1840) from commun (Old French comun; see common (adj.)) + -isme (see -ism). Originally a theory of society; as name of a political system, 1850, a translation of German Kommunismus (itself from French), in Marx and Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Cf. communist. In some cases in early and mid-20c., a term of abuse implying anti-social criminality without regard to political theory.

communism in Culture Expand

An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals (see Marxism and Marxism-Leninism). In practice, a single authoritarian party controls both the political and economic systems. In the twentieth century, communism was associated with the economic and political systems of China and the Soviet Union and of the satellites of the Soviet Union. (Compare capitalism and socialism.)

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