different between commie vs communism

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mi

Etymology 1

Blend of communist +? -ie (diminutive suffix).

Noun

commie (plural commies)

1. (derogatory, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
   • 1960, Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, 2003, page 49,

     “Jack Kennedy?s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they?ll elect him President, and we?ll all get killed. You know.”

   • 1966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah?s a Two-Way Street Running Out, Black World: Negro Digest, page 67,

     “Why, them dirty commies, of course. They?re the ones startin? all this fuss anyway. Them cotton-pickin? niggers wasn?t causin? no trouble until them Yankee commies started in.”

   • 2004, Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, page 48,

     The commies claim they are helping the blacks.

2. (derogatory, slang, by extension) Synonym of anticapitalist

Synonyms

• commo (Australia)

Translations

See also

• red under the bed

Adjective

commie (not comparable)

1. (derogatory, slang) Communist.

Etymology 2

From Commodore (“name of a car model”) +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

commie (plural commies)

1. (colloquial, Australia) A Holden Commodore.

Etymology 3

From commercial vehicle

Noun

commie (plural commies)

1. (colloquial, army) A commercial vehicle.

Anagrams

• McOmie

English

Alternative forms

• Communism

Etymology

A calque of the German word Kommunismus (from Marx and Engels's Manifesto of the Communist Party, published in 1848), in turn a calque of the French word communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin comm?nis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m.ju?n?zm?/

Noun

communism (countable and uncountable, plural communisms)

1. Any political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively.

   Synonym: (dated, rare) aspheterism
2. Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
3. The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.

Usage notes

• See also the definitions of Communism.

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Further reading

• "communism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 73.