What is communism, in layman's terms?

Freedom and equality for everyone, everything. Classless: no one is more superior than the others. Government owns everything, people own the government. Do what you can for what the community needs, get what you need from what the community has. Self-regulation, self-improvement, and free will. read more

In addition to several of the answers given to this question, it is important to distinguish Marx’s understanding of this term from the aberration that emerged in Russia in the mid-1920s after Lenin died. read more

Communism is a ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society , which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money , and the state. read more

i need easily digested and explainable definitions and examples for all of the stated above, and if possible every other important government terminology i left out. read more