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communism

a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership

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Six example sentences with communism, each labelled with its topic.

  • After 1949 the new government in China took farmland into collective hands, and villages ran under communism for a generation.

    History

  • Orwell's fable turns a farm into a parable about communism, where the barn belongs to everyone and the pigs decide everything.

    Literature

  • Under communism a factory has no owner to sell it, so planners rather than buyers decide what the machines produce.

    Economics

  • The party campaigned on communism, promising to place every factory and farm under collective ownership within a decade.

    Politics

  • Marx described communism as a society without private property, where the question of who owns the mill no longer arises.

    Philosophy

  • The film shows a village adjusting to communism, with the family orchard suddenly belonging to everyone and no one.

    Movies

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