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Antonyms for communism

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kom-yuh-niz-uh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒm yəˌnɪz əm

Definition of communism

Origin :
  • "social system based on collective ownership," 1843, from French communisme (c.1840) from commun (Old French comun; see common (adj.)) + -isme (see -ism). Originally a theory of society; as name of a political system, 1850, a translation of German Kommunismus (itself from French), in Marx and Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Cf. communist. In some cases in early and mid-20c., a term of abuse implying anti-social criminality without regard to political theory.
  • Each [i.e. socialism, communism, anarchism] stands for a state of things, or a striving after it, that differs much from that which we know; & for many of us, especially those who are comfortably at home in the world as it is, they have consequently come to be the positive, comparative, & superlative, distinguished not in kind but in degree only, of the terms of abuse applicable to those who would disturb our peace. [Fowler]
  • noun socialist government
Example sentences :
  • Communism maintains that social wrongs can be corrected only by violence.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • It is a race as to whether this peninsula will be captured by communism or capitalism.
  • Extract from : « Rosinante to the Road Again » by John Dos Passos
  • About war there is no difficulty; the principle of communism is adapted to military service.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • There is an element of monasticism even in Plato's communism.
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • Socialism was, on the Continent at least, 'respectable'; Communism was the very opposite.
  • Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo
  • Every age has had its socialism, its communism, its dream of bread and work for all.
  • Extract from : « The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice » by Stephen Leacock
  • We should try to eliminate the stereo-type attitudes about, and suspicion of, communism.
  • Extract from : « The Invisible Government » by Dan Smoot
  • They are capable of fighting their own war, if war is necessary to protect them from communism.
  • Extract from : « The Invisible Government » by Dan Smoot
  • An early form of communism with a sort of military-priesthood at the top.
  • Extract from : « Mercenary » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
  • Infidelity, and Communism, and the Jesuits will be emboldened.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 » by Joseph Wild

Synonyms for communism

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