Communism
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Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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Communism (from Latin communis - common, universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order. This movement, in its Marxist–Leninist interpretations, significantly influenced the history of the 20th century, which saw intense rivalry between the "socialist world" (socialist states ruled by communist parties) and the "Western world" (countries with capitalist economies).
See also
- Property is theft
- Proletariat
- Left-wing politics
- Marxism
- McCarthyism
- Sharing
- Paris Commune
- Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
- Fall of the German wall
- Tragedy of the commons
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