Communism en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kɒ.mjə.nɪ.zəm/
- (Southern-England) audio
- /kɒ.mjʊ.nɪ.zəm/ RP, conservative
Meanings
- (uncountable) The ideology of political parties that use the term Communist in their names, usually Marxist and Leninist.
- (uncountable) The socio-economic system based on such parties' ideologies.
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(US, informal, uncountable) A state of affairs perceived as oppressive, overly arbitrary, or totalitarian.
. ..he shouldn't...just...[say]..."I -- I am responsible for prosperity,"...that's Communism, Sir, you see.
1953 (pub. 1997), Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy ed., Hinge of Generations-1953 Transcripts http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN091214825X&id=faq3Bng7IeYC&pg=RA1-PA24-IA44&lpg=RA1-PA24-IA44&dq=%22that%27s+communism%22&sig=euXrX5FOsAMFM3BcT3cmzgFmKb8Although her elder daughter, Jane, complains, “that's Communism,” Mrs. Hilton rents her own bedroom to a retired colonel.
1992, Sylvia Whitman, V Is for Victory: The American Home Front During World War II:...[he] condemned Thurmond's proposal for its “totalitarianism”: “That's Communism....That's China. That's not America.
1998, Joseph Martin Hernon, Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990:
Deriveds
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