communismとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A calque of the German word Kommunismus (from Marx かつ Engels's Manifesto of the Communist Party, published in 1848), in turn a calque of the French word communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.juˌnɪzm̩/

名詞

communism (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 communisms)

1. Any political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively.

   Synonym: (dated, まれに) aspheterism

   • 1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Edited by A. Huxley‎^[1], page 219:

     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.

2. Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
3. The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.

使用する際の注意点

• See also the definitions of Communism.

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