communism

Meaning

Noun

• Any political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
• Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
• The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.

Origin

• A calque of the German word Kommunismus (from Marx and Engels's '''', published in 1848), in turn a calque of the French word communisme, which was formed from commun (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme.