communism
[ˈkɑ.mju.nɪ.zm̩]
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
Colloquial; Countable; Derogatory; Uncountable
noun
Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Engels observes in one of his early writings that the Hegelian Left was the natural approach to communism, and that Hegelian communists such as Hess, Ruge, and Herwegh were a proof that the Germans must adopt communism if they were to remain faithful to their philosophical tradition from Kant to Hegel."
- "This tax plan is communism!"
- "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."
- "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."
- ". ..he shouldn't...just...[say]..."I -- I am responsible for prosperity,"...that's Communism, Sir, you see."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: communisme, commūnis
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [ˈkɑ.mju.nɪ.zm̩]
- British English: /ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Colloquial
- Derogatory
- American usage
- Informal