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communism

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English

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The red flag, a symbol often used to represent communism.

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Old Latin comoinis
Latin commūnis
Old French comun
French commun
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French communismebor.
English communism

    A borrowing from French communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”). By surface analysis, commune +‎ -ism.

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    communism (countable and uncountable, plural communisms)

    2. 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.
    3. Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
    4. The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
    5. (chiefly Western, often derogatory, colloquial) Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
      This tax plan is communism!
    6. (rare) Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
      • 2022 January 26, Liam Kofi Bright, Remco Heesen, “To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist”, in Social Epistemology, volume 37, number 3, →DOI:
        A recent survey of 633 South Korean scientists found not only that communism was the Mertonian norm they thought most respected in practice (Kim and Kim 2018, 9), but also that younger scientists’ replies showed evidence of ‘mounting tension between the commercialisation of academic science and the norm of communalism’ (Kim and Kim 2018, 19). Our focus on scientific communism and its relationship to commercial research may thus reflect the concerns of working scientists.
    7. (rare) communality, sharedness.
      • 2025 November, Thomas Sargent, “Macroeconomics after Lucas”, in Journal of Political Economy, volume 133, number 11, →DOI:
        Rational expectations econometrics extends a communism of statistical models to include a “sharing with nature” that is an essential input into making maximum likelihood or generalized method of moments be good estimators.

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