Communism (disambiguation)

Communism is a political ideology and movement with the ultimate aim of achieving a communist society.

Communism may also refer to:

• Communism Peak, a mountain in Tajikistan
• Communist society (or communist system), a hypothetical socioeconomic system characterized by superabundance, the holding of property in common and free access; most notable in Marxist theory where it is postulated to arise after socialism and based on the principle of from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
• Communist state, a dominant or single-party sovereign socialist state in which the ruling party officially adheres to a variant of Marxism-Leninism or its variations (e.g. Leninism, Maoism, etc.)
• Marxism-Leninism, a political ideology that combines elements of Marxism with the Leninist practices of Vanguardism, democratic centralism and theory of imperialism which serves as the ideology of Communist states
• Primitive communism (or communalism), a name for early hunter-gatherer societies that had no hierarchical social class structures or capital accumulation
• War communism, an economic policy in Soviet Russia during 1918–1921