How do you use the word "communism" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "communism" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "communism": Communism will never be reached in my lifetime. Communism is the system practiced in the Soviet Union.

Communism Meaning

[ˈkɒm.ju.nɪ.zm̩]

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAny far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.

nounAny political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.

Sentence Examples

Communism will never be reached in my lifetime.

Communism is the system practiced in the Soviet Union.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The decline of ____ in Eastern Europe began in the late 1980s.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The end of the Cold War signaled the collapse of Soviet ____.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Old Latin comoinis Latin commūnis Old French comun French commun Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French communismebor. English communism A borrowing from French communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”). By surface analysis, commune + -ism.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency." — 1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Edited by A. Huxley, page 219:

"A recent survey of 633 South Korean scientists found not only that communism was the Mertonian norm they thought most respected in practice (Kim and Kim 2018, 9), but also that younger scientists’ replies showed evidence of ‘mounting tension between the commercialisation of academic science and the norm of communalism’ (Kim and Kim 2018, 19). Our focus on scientific communism and its relationship to commercial research may thus reflect the concerns of working scientists." — 2022 January 26, Liam Kofi Bright, Remco Heesen, “To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist”, in Social Epistemology, volume 37, number 3, →DOI:

"Rational expectations econometrics extends a communism of statistical models to include a “sharing with nature” that is an essential input into making maximum likelihood or generalized method of moments be good estimators." — 2025 November 26, Thomas Sargent, “Macroeconomics after Lucas”, in Journal of Political Economy, volume 133, number 11, →DOI:

"Although her elder daughter, Jane, complains, “that's Communism,” Mrs. Hilton rents her own bedroom to a retired colonel." — 1992, Sylvia Whitman, V Is for Victory: The American Home Front During World War II:

"...[he] condemned Thurmond's proposal for its “totalitarianism”: “That's Communism....That's China. That's not America." — 1998, Joseph Martin Hernon, Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990:

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