barracks communism
Meanings
noun
- A crude, authoritarian, forced collectivism and communism where all aspects of life are bureaucratically regimented.
Word forms
Etymology
Calque of German Kasernenkommunismus, coined by Karl Marx in reference to the workers' dormitories (not military barracks).
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