communistic

Favoring collective ownership

Communistic describes something characteristic of or favoring communism—the political ideology advocating collective ownership and the abolition of private property.

The term often carries a dismissive or hostile tone, used by critics rather than adherents: The proposal was attacked as communistic.

Someone sympathetic to the ideology would more likely say communist or socialist.

ideological

Marxism

Class-based revolutionary philosophy

  • LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
  • MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
  • TrotskyismRevolutionary socialist theory opposing bureaucracy

Stalinism · Marxist-Leninist · classless society · proletariat · bourgeoisie · anti-capitalist · revolutionary theory · class struggle · means of production · class consciousness

political

Bolshevism

Lenin's revolutionary communist ideology

comrade · agitprop · propaganda · revolution · radical · leftist · party congress · red · purge · show trial

collective

kibbutz

Israeli communal farm

common property · communalism · pooled resources

soviet

USSR

Former communist superpower

  • KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
  • MoscowRussia's capital city
  • LeninSoviet state founder

Stalin · KGB · Pravda · Red Army · Bolsheviks · Cold War · Iron Curtain · October Revolution · Siberia · Sputnik

economic

planned economy

Centralized resource allocation system

quota · nationalization · collectivization · five-year plan · heavy industry · rationing · state planning · public ownership · price controls · production targets

egalitarian

classless

Without social divisions

social equality · fraternity · brotherhood · solidarity · common good · leveling · anti-elitism · workers' rights · proletarian · mass movement

Opposites
economic system

communisticcapitalistic

Supporting private profit systems

free-market · capitalist · laissez-faire · privatized · noncommunistic

political ideology

communisticright-wing

Politically conservative faction

anticommunist · conservative · reactionary · fascistic · libertarian

property relations

communisticbourgeois

Middle-class and conventional

propertied · proprietary · plutocratic · aristocratic · landowning

Phrases
Family

communist, anticommunist, noncommunist

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