COMMUNISM - Black's Law Dictionary

What is COMMUNISM? Definition of COMMUNISM in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

A system of social organization in which goods areheld in common,  the opposite of the system  of private  property; communalism, any  theory or system of social organization involving common ownership of agents of production of industry, the latter of which theories  is referred to in the popular, use  of the word "communism" while the scientific usage sometimes conforms to the first alone and sometimes alternates between the first and second; also the principles and theories of the Communist Party,  especially in Soviet  Russia. Feinglass v. Reinecke, D.C.Ill., 48 F.Supp. 438, 440. ,

Any theory or system of social organization involving common ownership  of the agents of production,  and some approach  to equality in the distribution of the products  of industry. Webster, Diet. A system by which the  state controls the means of production  and the distribution  and consumption of industrial products. Cent.Dict.

An equality  of distribution of the physical  means of life and enjoyment  as a transition to a still higher standard of justice that all should work according to their capacity and receive according to their wants. 1 Mill, Pol.Ec. 248.

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