communism

• Communism

A calque of the German word Kommunismus (from Marx and Engels's Manifesto of the Communist Party), in turn a calque of the French word communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin communis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.juˌnɪzm̩/

communism (countable and uncountable, plural communisms)

1. Any political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively.

   Synonym: aspheterism (dated, rare)

   • 1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Edited by A. Huxley‎, page 219:

     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.

2. Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
3. The international socialist society where classes and the state no longer exist.

• See also the definitions of Communism.

• commie
• communal
• communalism
• commune
• communist
• communistic
• communistical
• communistically

• authoritarianism
• capitalism
• collectivism
• leftism
• Leninism
• liberalism
• Maoism
• Marxism
• socialism
• Stalinism
• statism
• totalitarianism
• Trotskyism

• "communism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 73.