communismとは

語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒm.juˌnɪzm̩/

The red flag, particularly when marked with a yellow hammer intersecting a yellow sickle, is an iconic symbol of communism.

名詞

communism (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 communisms)

1. Any political philosophy or ideology advocating holding the production of resources collectively.
   • 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 and the state no longer exist.

使用する際の注意点

• See also the definitions of Communism.

関連する語

• commie
• communal
• communalism
• commune
• communist
• communistic
• communistical
• communistically

参考

• authoritarianism
• capitalism
• collectivism
• leftism
• Leninism
• liberalism
• Maoism
• Marxism
• socialism
• Stalinism
• statism
• totalitarianism
• Trotskyism

Further reading

• "communism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 73.