English [ edit ]
The red flag.
Alternative forms [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
A borrowing from French communisme , which was formed from commun ( “ common ” ) (from Latin commūnis ) and the suffix -isme ( “ -ism ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
communism (countable and uncountable , plural communisms )
Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively , especially by seizing it through revolution .
Synonym: ( dated, rare ) aspheterism
1932 , D. H. Lawrence , The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Edited by A. Huxley [1] , page 219 :I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.
Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
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Translations [ edit ]
ideology/philosophy
Afrikaans: kommunisme
Albanian: komunizëm (sq) m
Arabic: شُيُوعِيَّة f ( šuyūʕiyya )
Aragonese: comunismo m
Armenian: կոմունիզմ (hy) ( komunizm )
Asturian: comunismu m
Azerbaijani: kommunizm
Basque: komunismo
Belarusian: камуні́зм m ( kamunízm )
Bengali: কমিউনিজম ( komiunijom ) , সাম্যবাদ ( śammobad )
Bulgarian: комуни́зъм (bg) m ( komunízǎm )
Burmese: ကွန်မြူနစ်စနစ် ( kwanmrunacca.nac ) , ကွန်မြူနစ်ဝါဒ ( kwanmrunac-wada. )
Catalan: comunisme (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 共產主義 / 共产主义 ( gung6 caan2 zyu2 ji6 )
Mandarin: 共產主義 / 共产主义 (zh) ( gòngchǎnzhǔyì )
Min Nan: 共產主義 / 共产主义 ( kiōng-sán-chú-gī )
Corsican: cumunismu m
Czech: komunismus (cs) m
Danish: kommunisme c
Dutch: communisme (nl) n
Esperanto: komunismo (eo)
Estonian: kommunism
Faroese: kommunisma f
Finnish: kommunismi (fi)
French: communisme (fr) m
Galician: comunismo (gl) m
Georgian: კომუნიზმი (ka) ( ḳomunizmi )
German: Kommunismus (de) m
Greek: κομμουνισμός (el) m ( kommounismós )
Greenlandic: kommunistiussuseq
Gujarati: સામ્યવાદ ( sāmyavād )
Hebrew: קוֹמוּנִיזְם (he) m ( komunízm )
Hindi: साम्यवाद (hi) m ( sāmyavād ) , कम्युनिज़म m ( kamyunizam )
Hungarian: kommunizmus (hu)
Icelandic: kommúnismi m
Ido: komunismo (io)
Indonesian: komunisme (id)
Irish: cumannachas m
Italian: comunismo (it) m
Japanese: 共産主義 (ja) ( きょうさんしゅぎ, kyōsanshugi )
Kannada: ಸಾಮ್ಯವಾದ ( sāmyavāda )
Kazakh: коммунизм (kk) ( kommunizm )
Khmer: កុម្មុយនិស្តនិយម ( kommuynɨh niyum ) , លទ្ធិកុម្មុយនិស្ត ( latthiʼ kommuynɨh )
Korean: 공산주의(共產主義) (ko) ( gongsanjuui )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کۆمۆنیزم ( komonîzm )
Kyrgyz: коммунизм ( kommunizm )
Lao: ລັດທິຄອມມູນິດ ( lat thi khǭm mū nit )
Latin: communismus m
Latvian: komunisms m
Lingala: komynisimɛ
Lithuanian: komunizmas (lt) m
Low German:
German Low German: Kommunismus m
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Luxembourgish: Kommunismus m
Macedonian: комуни́зам m ( komunízam )
Malagasy: kominisma (mg) , komonisma (mg)
Malay: komunisme , faham komunis
Malayalam: കമ്യൂണിസം ( kamyūṇisaṁ ) , സാമ്യവാദം ( sāmyavādaṁ )
Manx: cummynys m
Maori: whiwhingatahitanga
Marathi: साम्यवाद m ( sāmyavād )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: коммунизм (mn) ( kommunizm ) , эв хамт ёс ( ev xamt jos ) ( China )
Mongolian: ᠺᠣᠮᠮᠦ᠋ᠨᠢᠰᠮ ( kommünism ) , ᠡᠪ ᠬᠠᠮᠲᠤ ᠶᠣᠰᠤ ( eb qamtu yosu )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kommunisme m
Nynorsk: kommunisme m
Occitan: comunisme (oc) m
Oriya: ସାମ୍ଯବାଦ ( samjôbadô )
Persian: کمونیسم (fa) ( komonism )
Polish: komunizm (pl) m
Portuguese: comunismo (pt) m
Punjabi: ਸਾਮਵਾਦ (pa) m ( sāmavād )
Quechua: kumunismu
Romanian: comunism (ro) n
Russian: коммуни́зм (ru) m ( kommunízm )
Sardinian: comunismu m
Scottish Gaelic: comannachd f , co-mhaoineas m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: комунѝзам m
Roman: komunìzam (sh) m
Sicilian: cumunismu m
Sinhalese: සමසමාජවාදය ( samasamājawādaya )
Slovak: komunizmus m
Slovene: komunizem (sl) m
Spanish: comunismo (es) m
Swahili: ukomunisti (sw)
Swedish: kommunism (sv) c
Tagalog: komunismo , kalamaan
Tajik: коммунизм (tg) ( kommunizm )
Tamil: பொதுவுடமை (ta) ( potuvuṭamai )
Tatar: коммунизм ( qommunizm )
Telugu: సామ్యవాదము ( sāmyavādamu )
Thai: ลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์ ( lát-tí-kɔm-miu-nít )
Tibetan: གུང་ཁྲན་རིང་ལུགས ( gung khran ring lugs ) , དམར་པོའི་རིང་ལུགས ( dmar po'i ring lugs )
Turkish: komünizm (tr) , komünistlik (tr)
Turkmen: kommunizm
Tuvan: коммунизм ( kommunizm )
Ukrainian: комуні́зм (uk) m ( komunízm )
Urdu: اِشْتِمالِیَت f ( ištemāliyat ) , کمیونزم ( kamyunizm )
Uyghur: كوممۇنىزم ( kommunizm )
Uzbek: kommunizm (uz)
Venetian: comunismo m
Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa cộng sản (vi) (主義共產 )
Volapük: kobädim (vo)
Welsh: comiwnyddiaeth f
West Frisian: kommunisme n
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: קאָמוניזם m ( komunizm )
Zhuang: gungcanjcujyi , gungcanj cujyi
Translations to be checked
See also [ edit ]
Further reading [ edit ]
"communism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 73.