communism

noun

1. 1

   Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.

   I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.

   Engels observes in one of his early writings that the Hegelian Left was the natural approach to communism, and that Hegelian communists such as Hess, Ruge, and Herwegh were a proof that the Germans must adopt communism if they were to remain faithful to their philosophical tradition from Kant to Hegel.

2. 2

   Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.

3. 3

   The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.

4. 4

   Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.

   This tax plan is communism!

5. 5

   rareReadiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).

6. 6

   rarecommunality, sharedness.

   Rational expectations econometrics extends a communism of statistical models to include a “sharing with nature” that is an essential input into making maximum likelihood or generalized method of moments be good estimators.

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communisms