Communism (disambiguation)

Communism may refer to:

• Communism, a political ideology and movement that opposes capitalism and aims to build a communist system;
• Communist society (also "communist system" or "communist mode of production"), a hypothetical socioeconomic system in Marxist analysis postulated to arise after socialism and will be structured on the principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need";
• A communist state, a state ruled by a Communist Party and guided by Marxist-Leninist ideology;
• Primitive communism, a name for early hunter-gatherer societies that had no hierarchical social class structures or capital accumulation;
• Marxism, a method of social analysis and a set of economic theories and theories on social evolution;
• Marxism-Leninism, a political ideology that combines elements of Marxist analysis with the Leninist theory of imperialism and practice of Vanguardism and democratic centralism;
• Religious communism, a combination of communist ideology and religious views, or a name for religious societies based on common ownership of property;
• War communism, an economic policy in Soviet Russia during 1918–1921;
• Communism Peak, a mountain in Tajikistan.