communize
Transfer to public
To communize is to bring under public or collective ownership, especially along communist lines: The regime sought to communize all private industry.
The word can also mean to make common or shared among a group.
More broadly, it sometimes means simply to spread communist ideology or impose communist organization on a society or region.
Convert to shared ownership
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
Das Kapital · Marx · Engels · Leninism · Stalinism · Maoism · Trotskyism · central planning
Seize for state use
- confiscateSeize by authority
- seizeTake suddenly, forcibly
- appropriateSuited to circumstance
- requisitionFormal order for supplies
takeover · commandeer · centralize · federalize · public ownership · state control · eminent domain · government takeover
Jointly operated enterprise
- kibbutzIsraeli communal farm
- shared ownershipJoint holding of property
- joint ownershipShared legal claim together
- pool resourcesCombine for mutual benefit
agrarian reform · land reform · mutual aid · cooperation · collectivization
Assign to different uses
- apportionDivide into portions
- levelHorizontal or uniform position
- equalizeMake uniform or balanced
- land redistributionReassigning property among populations
collectivize
Convert to shared ownership
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
revolution · Das Kapital · Marx · Engels · Leninism · Stalinism · Maoism · Trotskyism · central planning · comrade
expropriate
Seize for state use
- confiscateSeize by authority
- seizeTake suddenly, forcibly
- appropriateSuited to circumstance
requisition · takeover · commandeer · centralize · federalize · public ownership · state control · eminent domain · government takeover · municipalize
cooperative
Jointly operated enterprise
- kibbutzIsraeli communal farm
- shared ownershipJoint holding of property
- joint ownershipShared legal claim together
pool resources · agrarian reform · land reform · mutual aid · cooperation · collectivization
reallocate
Assign to different uses
land redistribution · wealth transfer · parcel out · reassign · dispossess
communizeprivatize
Transfer to non-government ownership
denationalize · marketize · deregulate · liberalize · commercialize
communizedemocratize
Extend rights broadly
westernize · liberalize · Americanize · free
- community chestShared local welfare fund
- community serviceUnpaid labor benefiting society
- Communist ChinaMarxist-Leninist Asian state
- community centerShared neighborhood gathering space
- community collegeTwo-year public institution
- community hallsShared local event spaces
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