“共产风”

“共产风” [gòng chǎn fēng]

1. ■ “communist wind” characterized by extreme equalitarianism and the indiscriminate; unpaid-for transfer of resources from one collective to another or from one level of ownership to another; practice of equalitarianism in the name of communism; “sharing of all property”; encouraging a premature advance to communism; “communist wind” was stirred up in the countryside (in the late 1950's), where equalitarianism prevailed and manpower and material resources were transferred arbitrarily in disregard of the collectives to which they belonged; appropriation of private and collectively-owned property without compensation