barracks communism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A crude, authoritarian, forced collectivism and communism where all aspects of life are bureaucratically regimented.

Word forms

barracks communism

Etymology

Calque of German Kasernenkommunismus, coined by Karl Marx in reference to the workers' dormitories (not military barracks).

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