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communism

noun
/ˈkɒm.ju.nɪ.zm̩/UK/ˈkɑ.mju.nɪ.zm̩/US/ˈkɔm.jə.nɪ.zm̩/

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Latin comoinis Latin commūnis Old French comun French commun Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French communismebor. English communism A borrowing from French communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”). By surface analysis, commune + -ism.

  1. derived from commūnis
  2. borrowed from communisme

Definitions

  1. Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of…

    Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.

    • I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.

  2. Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.

  3. The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state,…

      Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.

      • This tax plan is communism!

    2. Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).

    3. communality, sharedness.

      • Rational expectations econometrics extends a communism of statistical models to include a “sharing with nature” that is an essential input into making maximum likelihood or generalized method of moments be good estimators.

    4. The ideology of political parties that use the term Communist in their names, usually…

      The ideology of political parties that use the term Communist in their names, usually Marxist and Leninist.

    5. The socio-economic system based on such parties' ideologies.

    6. A state of affairs perceived as oppressive, overly arbitrary, or totalitarian.

      • ...he shouldn't...just...[say]..."I -- I am responsible for prosperity,"...that's Communism, Sir, you see.
      • Although her elder daughter, Jane, complains, “that's Communism,” Mrs. Hilton rents her own bedroom to a retired colonel.
      • ...[he] condemned Thurmond's proposal for its “totalitarianism”: “That's Communism....That's China. That's not America.

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Derived

anarchocommunism, anarcho-communism, anticommunism, barracks communism, council communism, cryptocommunism, cybercommunism, Eurocommunism, Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, gay race communism, goulash communism, Islamocommunism, left communism, market communism, military communism, neocommunism, noncommunism, Obamunism, para-communism, postcommunism, procommunism, scientific communism, Serbo-Communism, war communism

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA