'Communism' definitions:
Definition of 'communism'
(from WordNet)
noun
A form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
noun
A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
Definition of 'Communism'
From: GCIDE
- Communism \Com"mu*nism\, n. [F. communisme, fr. commun common.] A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all. [1913 Webster]
- Note: At different times, and in different countries, various schemes pertaining to socialism in government and the conditions of domestic life, as well as in the distribution of wealth, have been called communism. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'communism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bipartisanship,
- Bolshevism,
- Castroism,
- centralism,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- collective farm,
- collectivism,
- collectivity,
- collegiality,
- collusion,
- commensalism,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- common ownership,
- communal effort,
- communalism,
- communion,
- Communist Information Bureau,
- Communist Party,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- complicity,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- constitutionalism,
- cooperation,
- cooperative society,
- cooperativeness,
- democracy,
- democratic centralism,
- democratism,
- dialectical materialism,
- duet,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- fascism,
- federalism,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- governmentalism,
- harmony,
- imperialism,
- iron curtain,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- kibbutz,
- kolkhoz,
- Maoism,
- Marxian socialism,
- Marxism,
- Marxism-Leninism,
- mass action,
- monarchism,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- national socialism,
- Nazism,
- neofascism,
- octet,
- parliamentarianism,
- parliamentarism,
- pluralism,
- political principles,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- profit sharing,
- public ownership,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- reciprocity,
- republicanism,
- revisionism,
- royalism,
- septet,
- sextet,
- sharecropping,
- socialism,
- solidarity,
- Stalinism,
- state ownership,
- statism,
- symbiosis,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- Titoism,
- town meeting,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- Trotskyism,
- united action