- Noun: Communism
- a theory advocating elimination of private property
- a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
- a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
- a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably
- communist systems collectively
- Synonyms:
- commie
- comrade
- Red
- socialist
- Usage:
- “Publicity for an event sponsored by the Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity served up a blunt Obama-is-a-communist message over the weekend, as Talking Points Memo reports..”
- Encountered:
- Over and over that Obama is a communist
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