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international Communism  

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  • Communism is a global social, political, economic, and cultural movement that dominated the 20th century, embracing transnational and international organizations and institutions as cognitive scripts and communist and socialist parties as essential national organizational features and as a part of the international workers’ movement. Communism, named first in Etienne Cabet's utopian dream Travels in Icaria (1840), has existed as an international movement since the mid-19th century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; Communism, as International Movement]

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