transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈkäm-yə-ˌni-zəm, -yü- ]
noun
Etymology: French communisme, from commun common
Date: 1840
1.
a. : a theory advocating elimination of private property
b. : a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed
2. capitalized
a. : a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
b. : a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
c. : a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably
d. : communist systems collectively