Communism
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Communism is a socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production and property in general.
It was a mainstream worldwide political system from the 1917 October Revolution until the fall of the German wall, both events in 1989.
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- The ideology of political parties that use the term 'Communist' in their names, usually Marxist and Leninist.
- The socio-economic system based on such parties' ideologies.
- A state of affairs perceived as oppressive, overly arbitrary, or totalitarian.
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See also
- Karl Marx
- Proletariat
- Left-wing politics
- Marxism
- McCarthyism
- sharing
- Karl Marx
- Paris Commune
- Russia
- China
- socialism
- capitalism
- Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
- Fall of the German wall
- Tragedy of the commons
- Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read by China Miéville
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