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communism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
  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. Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
  5. Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
  6. communality, sharedness.
noun
  1. The ideology of political parties that use the term Communist in their names, usually Marxist and Leninist.
  2. The socio-economic system based on such parties' ideologies.
  3. A state of affairs perceived as oppressive, overly arbitrary, or totalitarian.

Pronunciation

[ˈkɒm.ju.nɪ.zm̩] [ˈkɑ.mju.nɪ.zm̩] [ˈkɑ.mjə.nɪ.zm̩] [ˈkɔm.jə.nɪ.zm̩] En-us-communism.oga /kəmˈjunɪzəm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Communism.wav

Word forms

communism communisms

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.

Synonyms

aspheterism

Related words

commie communal communalism commune communist communistic communistical communistically decommunisation res communis authoritarianism capitalism collectivism Hitlerism individualism leftism Leninism liberalism Maoism Marxism Marxism-Leninism National Socialism Nazism socialism Stalinism statism totalitarianism Trotskyism

Derived words

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 Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism Rock Against Communism

Translations

Afrikaans: kommunisme Albanian: komunizëm Amharic: ኰሙኒስም Arabic: شُيُوعِيَّة Arabic: شيوعية Aragonese: comunismo Armenian: կոմունիզմ Armenian: համայնատիրություն Assamese: সাম্যবাদ Asturian: comunismu Azerbaijani: kommunizm Basque: komunismo Belarusian: камуні́зм Bengali: কমিউনিজম Bengali: সাম্যবাদ Bulgarian: комуни́зъм Burmese: ကွန်မြူနစ်စနစ် Burmese: ကွန်မြူနစ်ဝါဒ Catalan: comunisme Chinese Cantonese: 共產主義 /共产主义 Eastern Min Chinese: 共產主義 /共产主义 Chinese: 共產主義 /共产主义 Chinese Mandarin: 共產主義 /共产主义 Wu Chinese: 共產主義 /共产主义 Corsican: cumunismu Czech: komunismus Danish: kommunisme Dutch: communisme Esperanto: komunismo Estonian: kommunism Faroese: kommunisma Finnish: kommunismi French: communisme West-Frisian: kommunisme Galician: comunismo Georgian: კომუნიზმი German: Kommunismus Greek: κομμουνισμός Greenlandic: kommunistiussuseq Gujarati: સામ્યવાદ Hebrew: קוֹמוּנִיזְם Hindi: साम्यवाद Hindi: कम्युनिज़म Hindi: समानतावाद Hungarian: kommunizmus Icelandic: kommúnismi
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