A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole
Policy or practice based on this theory
(in Marxist theory) A transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism
the theory, principle, or scheme of social organization which places the means of production of wealth and the distribution of that wealth in the hands of the community [n -S]