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communism

com.mu.nism \'ka:m-y*-.niz-*m\ n [F communisme, fr. commun common] 1a: a 
   theory advocating elimination of private property  1b: a system in which 
   goods are owned in common and are available to all as  needed cap  2a: a 
   doctrine based upon revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-lenin ism 
   that is the official ideology of the U.S.S.R. 2b: a totalitarian system of 
   government in which a single authoritarian par ty controls state-owned 
   means of production with the professed aim of establishing a stateless 
   society 2c: a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state 
   has withe red away and economic goods are distributed equally