Definition

1. Verb:
   • To make property or resources state-owned: The act of transferring private property, industries, or assets into the ownership and control of the state or the community as a whole.
   • To make Communist or bring into accord with Communist principles: The process of imposing or aligning a government, system, or society with the doctrines of Communism.

Usage and Examples

• Verb:
  • The revolutionary council moved to communise the major industries. (The council acted to transfer the ownership of major industries to the state.)
  • After the war, the aim was to communise the agricultural sector. (The goal was to bring farmland under collective or state control.)
  • The political party sought to communise the government's structure. (The party aimed to reorganize the government according to Communist principles.)

Advanced Usage

• "to communise the means of production": A specific phrase referring to the core Marxist-Leninist principle of placing key industries (like factories, mines) under public ownership.
  • The manifesto's central goal was to communise the means of production.
• Used in historical and political discourse, often describing policies in states undergoing socialist revolution or transformation.

Variants and Related Words

• Communize (verb): The more common American English spelling of "communise".
• Communisation / Communization (noun): The process or result of making something communist or state-owned.
  • The communisation of the economy was met with resistance.
• Communist (noun/adjective): A person who believes in or practices communism; relating to communism.

Synonyms

• Nationalize: To transfer a major branch of industry or commerce from private to state ownership or control. (Note: "Nationalize" does not inherently imply Communist ideology, while "communise" does.)
• Collectivize: To organize according to the principle of ownership by the state or the people collectively, especially in agriculture.

Antonyms

• Privatize: To transfer (a business, industry, or service) from public to private ownership and control.
• Decollectivize: To break up a collective system, especially in agriculture.

Related Phrases and Context

• While "communise" itself is not typically used in phrasal verbs, it is central to phrases describing political transformation.
• "to bring under state control": A more neutral phrase for the act of making something state-owned.
• The term carries strong ideological connotations and is primarily used in analytical, historical, or political contexts rather than everyday conversation.

Verb

1. make into property owned by the state
   • The new government communized all banks
2. make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles
   • communize the government