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communize

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com·mu·nize  (kmy-nz)
tr.v. com·mu·nized, com·mu·niz·ing, com·mu·niz·es
1. To subject to public ownership or control.
2. To convert to Communist principles or control.

commu·ni·zation (-n-zshn) n.

communize, communise [ˈkɒmjʊˌnaɪz]
vb (tr; sometimes capital)
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) to make (property) public; nationalize
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) to make (a person or country) communist
communization , communisation n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.communize - make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles; "communize the government"
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
2.communize - make into property owned by the state; "The new government communized all banks"
nationalize, nationalise - put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks"
Translations
communize [ˈkɒmjuːnaɪz] VTcomunizar
communize


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Run out of Russia by his former partner in monstrous crime, Trotsky ended up in Mexico, never renounced his desire to communize or socialize the world, and went to his Maker when one of Stalin's henchmen plunged an axe into his skull in 1940.
Filipino democracy should have been a shining new hope for Asia, but it wasn't, because a group in Central Luzon calling itself the "People's Anti-Japanese Army," or the "Huks," were ready to communize the former colony.
Marco Aurelio Garcia, who founded the SPF with Lula and still serves as Lula's top adviser, is a hard line Marxist-Leninist, who participated in Salvador Allende's Cuban-directed attempt to communize Chile.
 
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