communization

Making property collective

Communization is the process of converting private property or resources to communal or state ownership.

The term appears in Marxist and anarchist theory to describe the transformation of capitalist economies: The communization of land displaced traditional farmers.

It can also describe bringing a region under communist control: the communization of Eastern Europe after World War II.

ideology

Marxism

Class-based revolutionary philosophy

  • LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
  • MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
  • BolshevismLenin's revolutionary communist ideology

Trotskyism · proletariat · bourgeoisie · classless society · stateless · revolution · vanguard · central planning · planned economy · soviet

redistribution

expropriation

Government taking private property

seizure · public ownership · reallocation · reapportionment · collectivization · dispossession · appropriation · requisition · socialization · dekulakization

collective

collectivization

Forced communal ownership transfer

self-management · commonality · solidarity · federation · mutualism · syndicalism · associationism · guild socialism · workers council · obshchina

Opposites
property regime

communizationprivatization

State sells public assets

denationalization · deregulation · marketization · liberalization · corporatization

political-economic system

communizationcapitalism

Private profit-based economy

free market · laissez-faire · neoliberalism · market economy · private enterprise

Family

common, community, communicate, communication, communism, communist, commune, communal, communications

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