Meaning of communism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The ideology of political parties that use the term Communist in their names, usually Marxist and Leninist.
   uncountable
2. Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution
3. Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
   countable, uncountable
4. The socio-economic system based on such parties' ideologies.
   uncountable
5. Bakuninism.
6. Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy
7. Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
   countable, uncountable
8. The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
   countable, uncountable
9. A state of affairs perceived as oppressive, overly arbitrary, or totalitarian.
   US, informal, uncountable
10. a 19th-century theory of revolution in opposition to that of Karl Marx, advocating atheism, destruction of central government, and extreme individualism. Also called autonomism.
11. The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist
12. Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
    Western, colloquial, countable, derogatory, often, uncountable
13. a radical wing of the Russian Social Democratie Labor party, favoring revolutionary tactics to achieve full socialization and, under the leadership of Ulyanov (Lenin), setting up from 1917-20 the present Soviet regime. — Bolshevik, Bolshevist, n., adj.
14. Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc
15. Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
    countable, rare, uncountable
16. the doctrines and policies of Fidel Castro, communist premier of Cuba.
17. Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms)
18. communality, sharedness.
    countable, rare, uncountable
19. the process of forming collectives or collective communities where property and resources are owned by the community and not individuals.
20. the process of communizing or being communized.
21. the tolerance of or sympathy for noncommunist ideas and institutions, used as a charge against Soviet intellectuals.
22. a position or rationale which departs from the established dogma of a political party, especially the Communist party. Also deviationalism. — deviationist, n., adj.
23. the combination of traditional materialism and Hegelian dialectic as espoused in the economic and political philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. — dialectical materialist.
24. the form of communism found in some countries of Western Europe, independent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Examples

“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.”

“This tax plan is communism!”

“A recent survey of 633 South Korean scientists found not only that communism was the Mertonian norm they thought most respected in practice (Kim and Kim 2018, 9), but also that younger scientists’ replies showed evidence of ‘mounting tension between the commercialisation of academic science and the norm of communalism’ (Kim and Kim 2018, 19). Our focus on scientific communism and its relationship to commercial research may thus reflect the concerns of working scientists.”

“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.”

“...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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