a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed; a theory advocating elimination of private property; a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Soviet Union… See the full definition
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Definition of communism
1a
: a system in which goods are owned in
common and are available to all as needed
b
: a theory advocating elimination of private property
2capitalized
a
: a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian
socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the U.S.S.R.
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
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