0 the belief in a society without different social classes in which the methods of production are owned and controlled by all its members and everyone works as much as they can and receives what they need
1 an economic system based on public ownership of property and control of the methods of production, and in which no person profits from the work of others
2 a political theory that believes that the state should control the methods of production, there should be no separate social classes and everyone should be treated equally:
the ideology of communism
3 a political and economic system that is officially based on this theory:
The 1970s witnessed the first of the pop-star's dalliances with communism.
Thanks to the collapse of communism the political antithesis between Left and Right is less important.
Marx was the progenitor of communism.
There are few true believers in communism left in the party.
Therefore, at the fall of communism, they were positioned to divert resources to themselves, and to prevent their economies reaching anything like an efficient equilibrium.
Communism in this period was not just international but anti-national in ethos and its notions of loyalty and legitimacy acknowledged no ties of place.
So does the continuing impact of the pattern of political organization under communism.
