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By Ashley Crossman. Definition: As defined by Karl Marx, communism is a mode of production in which the means of production, as well as virtually every other aspect of social life, are controlled by those who participate in them most directly.
communism definition. An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals (see Marxism and Marxism-Leninism). In practice, a single authoritarian party controls both the political and economic systems. In the twentieth century, communism was associated with the economic and political systems of China and the Soviet Union and of the satellites of the Soviet Union. (Compare capitalism and socialism.)