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Realism vs Communism - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between realism and communism

is that realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary while communism is the ideology of political parties that use the term communist in their names, usually marxist and leninist.

realism

English

(wikipedia realism)

Noun

  • A concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary
  • An artistic representation of reality as it is
  • (sciences) The viewpoint that an external reality exists independent of observation
  • (philosophy) A doctrine that universals are real—they exist and are distinct from the particulars that instantiate them

    • Antonyms

    * (doctrine concerning universals) nominalism

    See also

    * idealism

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ism ----

    communism

    English

    (wikipedia communism)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any political philosophy or ideology advocating holding the production of resources collectively.
  • Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
  • The international socialist society where classes and the state no longer exist.

    • Usage notes

    * See also the definitions of Communism .

    Related terms

    * Communism * communal * commune * communist * commie

    See also

    * leftism * Leninism * liberalism * Maoism * Marxism * socialism * Stalinism * Trotskyism English words suffixed with -ism