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com·mun·ism
 communism
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- pronunciation:
- kam
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nih
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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the theory of a classless social system in which all property and means of production are owned in common; socialist theory deriving from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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(sometimes cap.) a social system, esp. that of the former Soviet Union, in which all means of production are owned by the state.
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| definition 3: |
the international movement to establish state socialism as the dominant world social system.
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