Communism
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COMMUNISM, the name loosely given to schemes of social organizations depending on the abolition of private property and its absorption into the property of a community as such.
Communism in its original meaning is a social theory and political movement for the direct and communal control of society towards the common benefits of all members, the society being the communist society, see below.
Communism
Any ideology based on the communal ownership of all property and a classless social structure, ...
communism
in theory, anticapitalist proposals of Karl Marx and his followers that communal ownership of the means of production is preferable; in practice, ...
Communism was imposed on relatively advanced East Germany and Czechoslovakia by the occupying forces of the Soviet Union, not by revolution.
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Robert Conquest, Harvest of Sorrow (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 187.
Communism In its purest form, an economic system in which the state has disappeared and individuals contribute to the economy according to their productivity and are given income according to their needs.
COMMUNISM
In theory, an economy, or economic system, based on--(1) a classless society, where everyone does their best to contribute to the common good, (2) common, rather than individual, ownership of all resources, ...
communism an economic system in which all capital is collectively owned. (34) ...
In recent years, heavily structured economic programs have been associated in particular with socialism, communism, and fascism.
Money, stock exchange (New-York NYSE, Toronto TSX, Australia ASX, Montreal, London) and it others forms of trading are the nervous system of our society : Capitalism is a new virus in the few countries who believes in communism yet.
Capitalism is regarded as a market economy, whereas Communism is considered a planned economy. Most people find the market failures an unrestricted market economy can generate unacceptable.
Communism, for example, wasn't defeated by a popular rebellion but by countless individuals gradually freeing themselves from economic exploitation until that system went broke.
A philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about capitalism and communism.
In socialism/communism, the state owns and/or controls productive capital (i.e., nobody owns).
Longstanding economic and political impulses had combined with militant anticommunism to devastate much of Southeast Asia.
Many former soviet countries experienced a huge growth in the black market after the fall of Communism.
Natural economy
Primitive communism
Social market economy
Socialist economy ...
(A related concept, applying to absolute sovereignty in political relations, is referred to as autarchy.) Until the collapse of communism, many former East Bloc countries pursued policies of autarky relative to the capitalist world.
Gradualism - A steady and calculated approach to transforming an economy from communism to capitalism.
the olive branch in heraldry represents peace, the halo is a conventional symbol of sainthood in Christian imagery, tartans are symbols of Scottish clans, and the color red is often used as a symbol for socialist movements, especially communism.
 See also: Socialism, Capitalism, Capitalist, Population, Smith
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