id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7297 Communism - Wikipedia .html text/html 13297 1732 57 Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal')[1][2] is a philosophical, social, political and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money[3][4] and the state.[5][6] Along with social democracy, communism became the dominant political tendency within the international socialist movement by the 1920s.[8] The emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally communist state led to communism's widespread association with Marxism–Leninism and the Soviet economic model.[1][a][9] Almost all communist governments in the 20th century espoused Marxism–Leninism or a variation of it.[10] Some economists and intellectuals argue that in practice the model was a form of state capitalism,[11][12][13] or a non-planned administrative or command economy.[14][15] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7297.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7297.txt