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A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.

mits promiseuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.

ers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.

An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories.

current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country with a Western orientation was as politically unstable as a domino standing on edge.…

age, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism. [Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is use…