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communisme

communisme

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communisme n (plural communismen, diminutive communismetje n)

  1. communism
    Het Communisme van het Sovjetblok verloor de Koude Oorlog tegen het Westers kapitalisme bij de val van de Muur.
    The Soviet block's Communism lost the Cold War against Western capitalism when the Wall came down.
  2. (literally) any collectivism
    Het communisme van Babeuf dateert van het Directoire, generaties voor Karl Marx' Manifest.
    Babeuf's communism dates from the Directoire, generations before Karl Marx's Manifesto.

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Etymology

From commun ((in) common)) + -isme (-ism)

Noun

communisme m (plural communismes)

  1. (literally) Any collectivism
  2. (commonly) The Marxist ideology communism

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