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communism

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Communism is a political ideology and economic system. It is a subclass of socialism and is characterized by anti-capitalism. The ideology is the opposite of anti-communism and is distinct from libertarian communalism. Its official color is red.

The subject is described by sources including The Catholic Encyclopedia, the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and The Nuttall Encyclopædia. A history of the topic exists, and it is referenced by 17,640 other encyclopedia articles. In academic literature, the query "communism" appears in 3,269 PubMed entries.

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3,269 papers

Psychology and the fall of Communism: The special case of (East) Germany.Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences · 2023Ash MGDOI: 10.1002/jhbs.22238
CAMOUFLAGING Communism.Journal. Kansas City (Mo.) Southwest Clinical Society · 1946
Stalin's stroke.Neurology · 1994Norris JWDOI: 10.1212/wnl.44.4.765
Heroism in medicine.Asklepii : bolgaro-sovetskii ezhegodnik istorii i teorii meditsiny · 1970Kuzmin MK
'Co-operation and Communism cannot work side by side': Organized Consumers and the Early Cold War in Britain.20 century British history · 2019Gurney PDOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwy003
[Road toward communism].Sovetskoe zdravookhranenie · 1952
The fallacy of communism.The Ohio journal of science · 1948LINDSEY AW
The doctor and communism.Rocky Mountain medical journal · 1963MOTT WC

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Contents

Etymology and terminology
Communism and socialism
Associated usage and Communist states
History
Early communism
Revolutionary wave of 1917–1923
Communist states
Soviet Union
China
Cold War
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Post-Soviet communism
Theory
Marxist communism
Marxist concepts
Class conflict and historical materialism
Critique of political economy
Marxian economics
Socialization versus nationalization
Democracy in Marxism
Leninist communism
Marxism–Leninism
Stalinism
Trotskyism
Maoism
Eurocommunism
Libertarian Marxist communism
Council communism
Left communism
Other types of communism
Anarcho-communism
Christian communism
Analysis
Achievements of the Soviet planned economies
Economic problems of the Soviet planned economies
Reception
Excess mortality in Communist states
Memory and legacy
See also
References
Citations
Explanatory footnotes
Quotes
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Communism () is a political and economic ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need. A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state. Communism is a part of the broader socialist movement.

Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a libertarian socialist approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and an authoritarian socialist, vanguardist, or party-driven approach to establish a socialist state, which is expected to wither away. Communist parties have been described as radical left or far-left.

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