All 50 Uses
communism
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The Communist Manifesto
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- A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power?†
*communistic = relating to an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Where is the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a Power.†
- It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?†
- PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?†
- The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties.†
- The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only: (1) In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.†
- The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement.†
- The immediate aim of the Communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of Communism.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property.†
- In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man's own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.†
- In Communist society, accumulated labour is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the labourer.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past.†
- This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other "brave words" of our bourgeoisie about freedom in general, have a meaning, if any, only in contrast with restricted selling and buying, with the fettered traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when opposed to the Communistic abolition of buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production, and of the bourgeoisie itself.†
communistic = relating to an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- All objections urged against the Communistic mode of producing and appropriating material products, have, in the same way, been urged against the Communistic modes of producing and appropriating intellectual products.†
communistic = relating to an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- All objections urged against the Communistic mode of producing and appropriating material products, have, in the same way, been urged against the Communistic modes of producing and appropriating intellectual products.†
- Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.†
- But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the whole bourgeoisie in chorus.†
- For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists.†
- The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial.†
- Bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with, is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalised community of women.†
- The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.†
- The charges against Communism made from a religious, a philosophical, and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.†
- The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- But let us have done with the bourgeois objections to Communism.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE 1.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- C. German, or "True," Socialism The Socialist and Communist literature of France, a literature that originated under the pressure of a bourgeoisie in power, and that was the expression of the struggle against this power, was introduced into Germany at a time when the bourgeoisie, in that country, had just begun its contest with feudal absolutism.†
- The French Socialist and Communist literature was thus completely emasculated.†
- It went to the extreme length of directly opposing the "brutally destructive" tendency of Communism, and of proclaiming its supreme and impartial contempt of all class struggles.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- With very few exceptions, all the so-called Socialist and Communist publications that now (1847) circulate in Germany belong to the domain of this foul and enervating literature.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- CRITICAL-UTOPIAN SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM We do not here refer to that literature which, in every great modern revolution, has always given voice to the demands of the proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf and others.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- The Socialist and Communist systems properly so called, those of Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period, described above, of the struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie (see Section 1.†
communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- But these Socialist and Communist publications contain also a critical element.†
- The significance of Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism bears an inverse relation to historical development.†
communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES Section II has made clear the relations of the Communists to the existing working-class parties, such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian Reformers in America.†
communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES Section II has made clear the relations of the Communists to the existing working-class parties, such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian Reformers in America.†
- The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement.†
- In France the Communists ally themselves with the Social-Democrats, against the conservative and radical bourgeoisie, reserving, however, the right to take up a critical position in regard to phrases and illusions traditionally handed down from the great Revolution.†
- The Communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany, because that country is on the eve of a bourgeois revolution that is bound to be carried out under more advanced conditions of European civilisation, and with a much more developed proletariat, than that of England was in the seventeenth, and of France in the eighteenth century, and because the bourgeois revolution in Germany will be but the prelude to an immediately following proletarian revolution.†
- In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.†
Definitions:
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(communism) an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)