A political and economic system that rejects the concept of personal ownership of property in favour of having all the wealth in the government's hands, and supplying necessary, and possibly luxury, goods to the population according to the individual's, and the mass's, needs.

This system is inefficient on a larger scale because of greediness and sloth, as in, many people taking more than they need and giving less than they can, although in a Kibbutz, or commune, this system is fairly efficient when coupled with some lenience regarding personal property (As in, allowing the capitalist based system of currency, but still keeping the economy run exclusively by the Kibbutz or commune management).

A derogative term used after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the changes in the former East Bloc countries to offend
supporters of the old regime and the members of the renamed Socialist Party in these states.

A great idea... On paper. The communist party is the idea of everything being owned by the entire community and there being no social classes. However, this really doesn't work since no one has anything to work for, there isn't any type of entertainment medium because everyone has assigned jobs, and a feeling of hopelessness.

1) (rare) one who strives to attain the ideals of communism (see cako's spot-on definition)

2) (common) impotent jibe intended to put down a non-like-minded person. Insult had some impact during the Cold War-era, but so did Styx.

Idiots who didn't read Marx and thought it would be funny if they said everyone was equal and redistributed the wealth to themselves.

The follower of an ideology based on the premise that there should be state control over the means of production. This means that all farms and factories henceforth belong to the government. Private property is also abolished. This means everything you own now belongs to the state. While this system breeds corruption, as a few men are left to handle the resources of an entire nation, this system still sees its fair share of supporters in the west. Perhaps the most prominent communist regime was the Soviet Union, widely known for its corrupt political system, and tendency to machine gun its own people.

Communists claim to follow the ideals set forth by Karl Marx. however, Marx's ideas were very vague, so this led to spin offs from his original idea. Leninism, Stalinism, and Maoism are perhaps the three biggest break-offs from the original ideas of Marx.

While there have been claims that "Communism hasn't been implemented properly," such claims have not stood up to the test of time. Giving a small group of elites control of a nation will always lead to a dictatorship.

one who follows a political philosophy otherwise known as marxism which sought to create a society in which people geared their lives towards the benefit of the community as a whole as oppose to yourself. communism has been bastardized over the years, and an extremeley comon misconception has risen in which people view other philosophies such as stalinism, maoism, trotskyism, bolshevism etc. to be communism when in truth they are seperate systems that used communism as the carrot on a stick of political oppresion to consolodate their power. while the philosophy in itself is a noble venture, people as of now are not ready to embrace it, as they tend to posess all the metality and goodwill of a spoiled two year old. it is also worth noting that communism is socialism, but socialism is not communism