Communism

A name given to schemes of social innovation which have for their common starting-point the overthrow of absolute rights of ownership in private property as an institution. Most theories further comprehend the regulation of industry and the sources of livelihood, as well as of the domestic relations, and some involve the abrogation of all central authority in a State, and the substitution of that of the commune.* It is the latter feature that constitutes a distinction between commimismand socialism.* See Anarchy; Government; Nihilist.