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communism

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communism noun
or Communism /ˈkɑːmjəˌnɪzəm/
communism
noun
or Communism /ˈkɑːmjəˌnɪzəm/
Learner's definition of COMMUNISM
[noncount]
: a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property共产主义 compare capitalism, socialism

See also: communism

BNC: 5758 COCA: 7085

communism

noun

com·​mu·​nism ˈkäm-yə-ˌni-zəm How to pronounce communism (audio)
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1
a
: a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
b
: a theory advocating elimination of private property
2
capitalized
a
: a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Soviet Union
b
: a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
c
: a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably
d
: communist systems collectively

Example Sentences

On one side stood Hitler, fascism, the myth of German supremacy; on the other side stood Stalin, communism, and the international proletarian revolution. Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books, 25 Oct. 2007 … I grew up in an idyllic midwestern town in the 1950's, when America was obsessed with the threat of communism. In Lawrence, Kansas, people felt the cold war as something real and very close. In the first grade, my teacher pointed to a giant orange blob on the map. That was Russia, Mrs. Postma announced. They were bigger than we were, and they were out to destroy us. Sara Paretsky, Booklist, 1 May 2003 Like me, he has lived his adult life in the context of the cold war. He was … in some sense always justified, at the back of his mind, by a concept of freedom, of America, that took sharpness from contrast with Communism. John Updike, New York Times Book Review, 5 Aug. 1990 Communism is a religion of the state, committed to the extinction of the Church. Flannery O'Connor, The Habit Of Being, 1979
Recent Examples on the Web The collapse of the Soviet Union and decline of communism in the early ’90s shook the political world of the right. Kim Phillips-fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022 Even Gorbachev’s form of communism is having a kind of afterlife. Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022 Iñigo Ucín, the president of Mondragon, told me that American and Chinese visitors often confuse its model with a form of communism. Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2022 As millions changed their attitude toward communism, Gorbachev took steps to create a power base for himself independent of the party. David Satter, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022 While it is often believed NATO was formed in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union and possible spread of communism over Europe after World War II, this is only partially true. Caitlin Mclean, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2022 Rivera’s too-towering example or Stalin’s murderousness or America’s increasingly hysterical anti-communism. Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022 For example, the 20th century’s dalliance with authoritarian communism—often pursued by people who saw themselves as moral revolutionaries—resulted in a number of moral catastrophes (famines, mass imprisonment, draconian thought control). Wired, 13 Aug. 2022 City Council meetings that used to focus on road design and utility contracts suddenly turned into fiery discussions about communism and spying. New York Times, 17 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

French communisme, from commun common

First Known Use

1840, in the meaning defined at sense 1b

Time Traveler
The first known use of communism was in 1840
BNC: 5758 COCA: 7085
communism

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + COMMUNISM | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVEinternational國際共產主義Soviet蘇維埃共產主義VERB + COMMUNISMembrace信仰共產主義defeat, fight, overthrow打敗共產主義;與共產主義鬥爭;推翻共產主義PREPOSITIONunder communism在共產主義體制下a book describing life under communism描寫共產主義體制下生活的書籍PHRASESthe collapse of communism, the fall of communism共產主義的崩潰/垮台the fight against communism, the struggle against communism反對共產主義的戰鬥/鬥爭the rise of communism, the spread of communism共產主義的興起/傳播

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