My timeline seems curiously interested in #definitionsofcommunism, so I thought maybe it's time to run through some of the classics.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution." [Marx, 1844] #definitionsofcommunism
“We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.” [Marx and Engels, 1848] #definitionsofcommunism
“Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.” [Lenin, 1920] #definitionsofcommunism #electrificationofthesovietunion #Союзнерушимыйреспубликсвободных
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." [attrib. to J. K. Galbraith] #definitionsofcommunism
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.” [Mao Zedong, quoted in e.g. Time Magazine 1963) #definitionsofcommunism
“Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever.” [Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris, 1937] #definitionsofcommunism w2.vatican.va/content/pius-x…
"Introducing Communism to Poland was like putting a saddle on a cow" [Stalin] #definitionsofcommunism #wellnotreallyadefinitionbutasimile #buttheresnothingwrongwiththat
This is probably the finest succinct account of multiple political ideologies in the literature that there is. #definitionsofcommunism #justwilliam 
"In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." [Marx and Engels, 1848] #definitionsofcommunism
"Instead of the conservative motto: 'A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!' they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword: 'Abolition of the wages system!'" [Marx, 1865] #definitionsofcommunism #kindasorta
