barracks communism

noun

barracks communism

noun

Etymology Calque of German Kasernenkommunismus, coined by Karl Marx in reference to the workers' dormitories (not military barracks).

1

A crude, authoritarian, forced collectivism and communism where all aspects of life are bureaucratically regimented.

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