Definition of "communism"

communism

noun
countable and uncountable, plural communisms
1. Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
  Quotations
  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.
  1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Edited by A. Huxley‎, page 219
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.