Communist
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
communism/ˈkɒmjunɪzəm/
▶noun a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.
■ a theory or system of this kind derived from Marxism and established in the former Soviet Union, China, and elsewhere.
– derivatives
communist noun & adjective,
communistic adjective.
communist noun & adjective,
communistic adjective.
'Communist' also found in these Oxford entries:
apparat
- apparatchik
- Bircher
- cadre
- Commie
- commissar
- commune
- communism
- communize
- comrade
- CP
- Dalai Lama
- east
- fellow-traveller
- flirtation
- free
- international
- Komsomol
- Mao
- Maoism
- Ostpolitik
- politburo
- presidium
- red
- samizdat
- Second World
- splittism
- Stalinism
- Third World
- Vietcong
- west
