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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #FF0000; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#FF0000"><b>Join the party!</b><br /><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Communism</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#F9F5D8;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Communism" title="Category:Communism"><img alt="Icon communism.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/4/42/Icon_communism.svg/100px-Icon_communism.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/4/42/Icon_communism.svg/150px-Icon_communism.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/4/42/Icon_communism.svg/200px-Icon_communism.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#FF0000; text-align:center;"><b>Opiates for the masses</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F9F5D8;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" class="mw-redirect" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolshevik" title="Bolshevik">Bolshevism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoism" title="Maoism">Maoism</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#FF0000; text-align:center;"><b>From each</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F9F5D8;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caleb_Maupin" title="Caleb Maupin">Caleb Maupin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sohrab_Ahmari" title="Sohrab Ahmari">Sohrab Ahmari</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#FF0000; text-align:center;"><b>To each</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#F9F5D8;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Das_Kapital" title="Das Kapital">Das Kapital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Labor_Federation" title="National Labor Federation">National Labor Federation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Panther_Party" title="Black Panther Party">Black Panther Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist" title="Hollywood blacklist">Hollywood blacklist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antifascist_Action" title="Antifascist Action">Antifascist Action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_Marxism" title="Cultural Marxism">Cultural Marxism</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Communism" title="Template:Communism">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Communism" title="Template talk:Communism">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Communism&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Slogan popularised by <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Communism</b> is a far-left ideology whose adherents<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> believe that society would be better if it was structured around common ownership of the means of production and the abolition of social classes, money, and the state.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> </p><p>Communism's most familiar form(s) are informed by <a href="/wiki/Das_Kapital" title="Das Kapital">Marxist theory</a>, which posits that <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> moves through stages driven by <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">class conflict</a>. This analysis maintains that <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudalism</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Aristocracy">aristocrats</a>, was transformed into <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> through class conflict with the <i><a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a></i> (those who own the <a href="/wiki/Socialism#Where_do_the_means_of_production_go" title="Socialism">means of production</a>, typically upper middle class and above). Class conflict between the bourgeoisie and the <i>proletariat</i> (<a href="/wiki/Working_class" class="mw-redirect" title="Working class">working class</a>) will lead to the transition from a capitalist to a <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist society</a>. This is regarded as the point where the proletariat takes the means of production from the bourgeoisie, effectively ending all class distinctions as society transitions into communism.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> </p><p>Modern communist thought took shape in 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Gilded_Age" title="Gilded Age">appalling working conditions</a> and <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">low wages</a> were the norm and brought Europe to the brink of large-scale <a href="/wiki/Revolution" title="Revolution">revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> These worsening social tensions made the new theory in town, communism, a serious challenge to the status quo and gained it a broad popular support base. <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a> predicted that capitalism would simply become more and more oppressive in response to communism and eventually result in revolution, but this linear process did not happen... </p><p>Rather, during the 20th century, the arrival of more <a href="/wiki/Progressive" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive">progressive</a> and/or left-leaning governments and the development of a <a href="/wiki/Welfare_state" title="Welfare state">social safety net</a> helped to diminish <a href="/wiki/Economic_inequality" title="Economic inequality">economic inequality</a> in much of the developed world, which undermined much of communist <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogma</a>. Additionally, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">various</a> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">regimes</a> <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">claiming</a> <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">to</a> <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Rouge" title="Khmer Rouge">be</a> <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">communist</a> devolved into <a href="/wiki/Totalitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Totalitarian">totalitarian</a>, atrocity-ridden dictatorships. These dictatorships <a href="/wiki/Mao" class="mw-redirect" title="Mao">often</a> <a href="/wiki/Holodomor" title="Holodomor">left</a> <a href="/wiki/Pol_Pot" title="Pol Pot">mass</a> <a href="/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_Massacre" title="Tiananmen Square Massacre">graves</a>. Towards the end of the century, most of the Soviet-aligned communist regimes fell due to a combination of <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> pressures, popular protests and strikes, economic problems, and <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a>'s liberalization policies.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> Meanwhile, many former followers of Marx and Engels, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Bernstein" class="extiw" title="wp:Eduard Bernstein" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Eduard Bernstein">Eduard Bernstein</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> abandoned communism and turned to <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">social democratic</a> and reformist socialist politics. </p><p>Communism, at least in the Bolshevist form as well as any offshoots thereof, is largely discredited, and few nations even claim to still adhere to it.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> Almost all that do have introduced market reforms to liberalize their economies to <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">varying</a> <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">extents</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> However, said <i>modern</i> communist countries are still nearly always <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">hardline authoritarian</a> with <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">blatant indifference to human rights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">utter impoverishment</a>. While, indeed, there are non-atrocious forms of communism, they are an exceedingly rare occurrence, with most former communists turning to <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">social democracy</a> in the same way followers of Marx and Engels did. However, with the advent of <a href="/wiki/Neoliberalism" title="Neoliberalism">neoliberalism</a> and the rising wealth gap, some communist ideas are seeing somewhat of a resurgence, although the term "communism" has been poisoned by authoritarian regimes. In general, the forms more popular today, at least in the West, include reformist socialist ideas like <a href="/wiki/Democratic_socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic socialism">democratic socialism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Socialism#Market_socialism" title="Socialism">market socialism</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Libertarian_socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian socialism">libertarian socialism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchism</a>, each of which tries to address or distance themselves from the pitfalls that led the communist regimes of the past to become totalitarian nightmares. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Communism_in_theory"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Communism in theory</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Early_forms"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Early forms</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Marxism"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Marxism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Leninism"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Leninism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Stalinism_vs._Trotskyism"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Stalinism vs. Trotskyism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Maoism"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">Maoism</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="#.22Dengism.22"><span class="tocnumber">1.5.1</span> <span class="toctext">"Dengism"</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Libertarian_communism"><span class="tocnumber">1.6</span> <span class="toctext">Libertarian communism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Critical_theory"><span class="tocnumber">1.7</span> <span class="toctext">Critical theory</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Non-Marxist_Communism"><span class="tocnumber">1.8</span> <span class="toctext">Non-Marxist Communism</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Communism_as_implemented"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Communism as implemented</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#General_problems"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">General problems</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Crimes_against_humanity"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Crimes against humanity</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Final_remnants"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Final remnants</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Is_communism_at_all_workable.3F"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Is communism at all workable?</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Current_status"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Current status</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Viability.3F"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Viability?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Communist_or_not.3F"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Communist or not?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#The_few_examples_when_communism_worked_out_relatively_fine"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">The few examples when communism worked out relatively fine</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Derivative_philosophies"><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">Derivative philosophies</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#Communism_and_religion"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Communism and religion</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Marx_on_religion"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Marx on religion</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#Religion_in_communism"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Religion in communism</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#Communism_and_rhetoric"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Communism and rhetoric</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="#Quotes_about_communism"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Quotes about communism</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26"><a href="#Pinko_commie"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Pinko commie</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27"><a href="#Notable_communists"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Notable communists</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-31"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Communism_in_theory">Communism in theory</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Communism in theory">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_forms">Early forms</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early forms">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Communism, as a <a href="/wiki/Political_philosophy" title="Political philosophy">political philosophy</a> advocating the communal ownership of property and abolition of commodity production, has been around almost since the dawn of politics. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels argued that early hunter-gatherer societies represented primitive communism. Such societies had no social classes or forms of <a href="/wiki/Capital" title="Capital">capital</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> Many <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a> groups and other <a href="/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">utopian</a> <a href="/wiki/Collective" class="mw-redirect" title="Collective">communities</a> throughout history have practiced it on a small scale as well — examples include early Christians (with the very first Christians being no exception — see <a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:Annotated_Bible/Acts#Acts_2:44" title="RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Acts">Acts 2:44</a> onward) and the Pythagoreans.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> The French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf has been called "the first revolutionary communist" and was killed for conspiring against the First French Republic during the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> These early forms of communism might be referred to as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/proto-communism" class="extiw" title="wp:proto-communism" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: proto-communism">proto-communism</span></a>".<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Marxism">Marxism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Marxism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Marx_et_Engels_%C3%A0_Shanghai.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Marx_et_Engels_%C3%A0_Shanghai.jpg/165px-Marx_et_Engels_%C3%A0_Shanghai.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="267" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Marx_et_Engels_%C3%A0_Shanghai.jpg/248px-Marx_et_Engels_%C3%A0_Shanghai.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Marx_et_Engels_%C3%A0_Shanghai.jpg/330px-Marx_et_Engels_%C3%A0_Shanghai.jpg 2x" data-file-width="897" data-file-height="1449" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Marx_et_Engels_%C3%A0_Shanghai.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Monument to Marx and Engels in China.</div></div></div> <p>The most (in)famous form of communism is derived from the ideas of Karl Marx. Marx, who had studied the <a href="/wiki/German" class="mw-redirect" title="German">German</a> <a href="/wiki/Idealism" title="Idealism">idealist</a> <a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel</a>, attempted to turn Hegel's idealism on its head in his own philosophy. He also sought to remove the idealism from earlier communist ideas and give them a materialistic footing (what later came to be called "<a href="/wiki/Dialectical_materialism" title="Dialectical materialism">dialectical materialism</a>"). </p><p>Marx is quoted as saying that "if anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist", referring to the misunderstanding or misapplication of his ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> However, a set of core beliefs called "Marxist" can certainly be ascribed to Marx, most notably the overthrow of capitalism, rejection of reformism, emphasis on the importance of socio-economic factors and class conflict in history, and the rejection of <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a> or semi-religious justifications for the existing order.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> Marxism can also be differentiated from other branches of socialism by its insistence on "scientific socialism".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> Marx believed contemporary socialists making arguments based on morality and justice (the sort attacked by Engels in <i>Socialism: Utopian and Scientific</i>) were missing the point entirely. He would reportedly burst out laughing when anyone tried to talk to him about morality. For Marx, the capitalist system's contradictions made the emergence of socialism (and thus eventually communism) inevitable. He saw himself as a scientist analyzing the development of political economy, not a moralist agitating for its abolition. </p><p>Marx initially rejected the reformist tactics and goals of <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">social democrats</a> in his <i>Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League</i> in 1850.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> Specifically, he argued that measures designed to increase wages, improve working conditions, and provide welfare payments would be used to dissuade the working class away from socialism and the revolutionary consciousness he believed was necessary to achieve a socialist economy. Reform and welfare schemes would thus threaten genuine structural changes to society by making the conditions of workers in capitalism more tolerable. Marx's view on labor reform matured as his thought developed, and he later expressed disagreement with French workers' leaders Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue on this point,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup> accusing them of 'revolutionary phrase-mongering' and denying the value of reformist struggles.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[note 1]</a></sup> </p><p>The Marxist view of society focuses on economic and class relationships and the role of the workers, or the proletariat. Marx theorized that <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> develops from primitive communism to a <a href="/wiki/Slave" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave">slave</a> society, then to feudalism, and after feudalism ceases to be productive, to capitalism. He claimed that capitalism, in a similar manner, leads to socialism since once it is developed enough, the proletariat will be an organized force capable of revolution: "What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, are its own <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">grave-diggers</a>." </p><p>When a workers' revolution has brought about the "dictatorship of the proletariat,"<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[note 2]</a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/State" title="State">state</a> would "wither away" and produce communism, a classless and stateless form of social organization. Despite appearances, Marx was not <a href="/wiki/Determinist" class="mw-redirect" title="Determinist">deterministic</a>. He did not believe the revolution would just happen automatically, but rather that socialists would have to actively help educate the workers and fight for it. However, crises and such would aid it. The <i><a href="/wiki/Communist_Manifesto" title="Communist Manifesto">Communist Manifesto</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a></sup> was his statement of purpose, though he later called parts of it (especially the ten generally applicable points for "advanced societies") antiquated. It was mainly a <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propagandistic</a> document and thus did not go into the details of economic theory, as does his later work, <i><a href="/wiki/Das_Kapital" title="Das Kapital">Das Kapital</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a></sup> However, one thing that Marx explicitly warned about was that attempts to do this in a society that had not yet undergone an <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Revolution" title="Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a> would most likely <i>backfire</i>, which brings us to... </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Leninism">Leninism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Leninism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:352px;"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_2.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_2.jpg/350px-%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="205" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_2.jpg/525px-%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_2.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="352" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_2.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Tearing down a statue of Lenin in Kharkiv, <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>'s second-largest city, on September 28, 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[21]</a></sup></div></div></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The proletariat's revolutionary dictatorship is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Vladimir Lenin, <i>The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky</i> (1918).<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[22]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>, leading the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a>, paid large amounts of lip service to Marx while in reality taking more ideas from <a href="/wiki/Socialism#Blanquism" title="Socialism">Blanquism</a> (even though Marx hadn't thought too highly of the chances of revolution from a feudalistic society and had coined the term 'dictatorship of the proletariat' to differentiate from the Blanquist minority dictatorship) and declaring open class warfare on the bourgeoisie (and that he would bring "Peace, Bread, and Land!") in an attempt to take power. Lenin jumped the gun by leading a communist revolution with a small group of intellectuals and without waiting for a significant working class to develop, trying to jumpstart a socialist state by "skipping" an entire step in the process Marx had described. In <i>Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a></sup> Lenin argued that foreign capital intervention in backward countries (colonies and economic dependents) created the conditions for socialist revolution, which was contrary to Menshevik thought (that the Revolution in Russia should first impose capitalism as a way for socialism to develop).<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a></sup> Lenin was basically asking: "Why would you need to make a revolution to create a capitalist system when capitalism is already here?" Although a mostly peasant and backward country, Russia had developed a significant working class in the cities. Lenin saw this as the basis for the revolution in which workers and peasants would unite against the monarchy and the bourgeoisie. </p><p>Leninism, as this would become known, is a sort of forced Marxism on steroids, in which a small yet significant group of leaders, known as a vanguard, ensured "two revolutions for the price of one" by "telescoping" the <a href="/wiki/February_Revolution" title="February Revolution">capitalist</a> and <a href="/wiki/October_Revolution" title="October Revolution">communist</a> revolutions and took over the state and industry. In Leninism, the revolutionary party would lead the revolution. This party would be "the voluntary selection of the most advanced, more aware, more selfless and more active workers." It would handle the socialist state and transform society into "communism" (as the beginning of the idea of socialism and communism being different stages of revolution originated mainly from Lenin). Crucially, this idea of a vanguard party was a significant criticism of left-wing socialists to the "mass" party structure of most socialist organizations, which had become a massive bureaucratic apparatus, with thousands of leased politicians and union officials who exercised absolute control of the press and labor organizations that adhered to socialism. A soviet state was established, and opposition on both right and left fomented and soon exploded into the brutal Russian <a href="/wiki/Civil_war" title="Civil war">Civil War</a>, which, mainly due to the harsh conditions faced by Lenin and his supporters (German invasion and civil war), resulted in the elevation of the <a href="/wiki/Bolsheviks" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolsheviks">Bolsheviks</a> to become a new <a href="/wiki/Elite" class="mw-redirect" title="Elite">elite</a> within <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. Simultaneously, the workers and peasants —the same people the Bolsheviks claimed to represent— were subjected to the same dictatorial control as in the <a href="/wiki/Tsar" title="Tsar">Tsar</a>'s regime. </p><p>There was a total of one democratic election in Russia after the <a href="/wiki/October_Revolution" title="October Revolution">October Revolution</a>. When the Bolsheviks lost to the moderate and liberal parties (the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks), they sent in the Red Guard and closed the Constituent Assembly.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a></sup> It is true that Lenin's ideas (especially applying <a href="/wiki/Planned_economy" class="mw-redirect" title="Planned economy">planned economy</a> principles to agriculture) didn't really work, but though some reforms were suggested, Lenin and <a href="/wiki/Trotsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Trotsky">Trotsky</a> killed most of those presenting them. Then Lenin died. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Stalinism_vs._Trotskyism">Stalinism vs. Trotskyism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Stalinism vs. Trotskyism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337,_Moskau,_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337%2C_Moskau%2C_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg/200px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337%2C_Moskau%2C_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="264" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337%2C_Moskau%2C_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg/300px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337%2C_Moskau%2C_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337%2C_Moskau%2C_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg/400px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337%2C_Moskau%2C_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1185" data-file-height="1562" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337,_Moskau,_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Stalin and <a href="/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop" title="Joachim von Ribbentrop">Ribbentrop</a>.</div></div></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Stalin is a Genghis Khan, an unscrupulous intriguer, who sacrifices everything else to the preservation of power... He changes his theories according to whom he needs to get rid of next.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Nikolai Bukharin, 1928.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The popular appeal of the revolutionary wave begun by the Russian Revolution understandably fell short in nations sporting a <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">social democratic</a> option. In Hungary, the government persecuted the communist leaders. In Italy, the communists didn't seize power; instead, they managed to indirectly pave the way for <a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a> (who <a href="/wiki/Horseshoe_theory" title="Horseshoe theory">started out as a far-leftist</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a></sup> In Germany, the powers-that-be outright murdered the revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a></sup> (aided by the Freikorps, which would later become the basis of the <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> party). Additionally, the Soviet Union's first experiment in spreading communism by force, the 1919 Polish-Soviet War, ended in embarrassing failure.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a></sup> </p><p>All of these factors indicated that the Russian Revolution was becoming more isolated. Meanwhile, the notorious thug and military leader <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> used his personal fame to gather supporters inside the Soviet Union's Party bureaucracy, eventually becoming General Secretary.<sup id="cite_ref-stalini_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stalini-32">[30]</a></sup> As General Secretary, Stalin ensured that he was one of the only people allowed to see Lenin after his stroke, and he used that position to ensure that he became the country's new leader. </p><p>Stalin felt that the failure of just about all communist revolutions in Europe meant that the Soviet Union should focus on strengthening itself internally before attempting to spread its ideology, an idea that became known as "Socialism in One Country."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[31]</a></sup> This pitted Stalin against both the previous position of the Bolsheviks and his greatest rival, <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a>, who thought that the nature of a world market meant that no socialist revolution could survive on its own in one country. Therefore, the Soviet Union <i>needed</i> to assist communists in other countries to ensure its long-term survival.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[32]</a></sup> Trotsky's doctrine of "international socialism" eventually, as every communist knows, earned him an ice axe in the brain courtesy of one of Stalin's assassins.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[33]</a></sup> </p><p>After winning against Trotsky, Stalin became one of the most brutal dictators in world history. He was like a hammer, treating his entire country as a nail in his relentless quest for personal power. He went after his rivals, then his own comrades, then everyone else he didn't like. He was aided by the fact that Lenin had abolished democracy and implemented Party dictatorship while ushering in <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_fear" title="Politics of fear">politics of fear</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a></sup> </p><p>Stalin's brutality against other leftists had terrifying consequences abroad. Leftists in Germany were weakened by infighting, and they were all subsequently shoved into <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camps" class="mw-redirect" title="Concentration camps">concentration camps</a> by <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> and the Nazis. In Spain, Stalin's zigzags with France and the UK and his policy of persecuting Trotskyists and anarchists left the Soviet-supported republican faction too busy fighting itself to fight the fascists, indirectly helping Franco win the war.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[35]</a></sup> With each defeat, a socialist revolution in Europe became more improbable, and the chances of another <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War</a> starting seemed greater; thus, Stalin's government grew more and more oppressive each day. So not only was the great Soviet <a href="/wiki/Experiment" title="Experiment">experiment</a> failing, Stalin stepped in and ensured it would never recover. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Maoism">Maoism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Maoism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:227px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Backyard_furnace4.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Backyard_furnace4.jpg/225px-Backyard_furnace4.jpg" decoding="async" width="225" height="315" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Backyard_furnace4.jpg/338px-Backyard_furnace4.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Backyard_furnace4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="428" data-file-height="600" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Backyard_furnace4.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Backyard steel furnaces during the Great Leap Forward.</div></div></div> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Maoism" title="Maoism">Maoism</a></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.'</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Mao Zedong, 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[36]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a>'s particularly gruesome take on Marxism easily ranks as the most devastating attempt to establish a communist society, as far as the total number of human casualties is concerned. Having taken over mainland <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> in 1949, he developed a branch of Communist theory, commonly referred to as "Mao Zedong Thought", that was supposed to address China's specific circumstances. Since China was a mostly rural country without a solid industrial base, it lacked the distinct class of urban factory workers that, according to Marxism, was necessary to form any kind of revolutionary force. Hence, Mao's take on communism had two primary differences from others. First, Mao focused on the millions of impoverished Chinese peasants as the backbone of the revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-maoismi_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maoismi-39">[37]</a></sup> Additionally, Maoism called for a much greater emphasis on the organized military, resulting in Mao using the army as a hammer against his political enemies, as well as greater Chinese <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-maoismi_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maoismi-39">[37]</a></sup> </p><p>Mao spent much of his rule flying by the seat of his pants in terms of ideology and planning. Mao initially tried following the Stalinist economic model, but he and his advisors reacted negatively to the consequential creation of a managerial and technocratic elite.<sup id="cite_ref-maoismi_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maoismi-39">[37]</a></sup> Deciding to focus on peasants instead, Mao ordered a vast industrialization program that was supposed to transform China's agrarian economy into a much more advanced one. This project, called the "Great Leap Forward", sought to create an industrial society that focused on manpower more than machines, hence the "backyard steel furnaces" phenomenon.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40">[38]</a></sup> As a result of the botched attempt to shift peasants from farming to steelworking, China's economy crashed, and around 45 million people starved to death.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[39]</a></sup> After being sidelined due to this failure, Mao eventually launched yet another attempt at a rapid societal transformation in a bid to re-establish himself as the undisputed leader of China. Starting in 1966, his so-called "Great Cultural Revolution" again toppled China into <a href="/wiki/Chaos" title="Chaos">chaos</a>, as a fanatic youth movement set out to destroy Chinese <a href="/wiki/Tradition" title="Tradition">traditional</a> <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> and the supposed last vestiges of the old elites.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42">[40]</a></sup> In practice, it was a reign of terror that consisted of completely random attacks against anyone and anything that drew the suspicion of the frenzied "Red Guards", among them no small number of their own operatives. </p> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:227px;"><a href="/wiki/File:ForbiddenCity_MaoZedongPortrait_(pixinn.net).jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/ForbiddenCity_MaoZedongPortrait_%28pixinn.net%29.jpg/225px-ForbiddenCity_MaoZedongPortrait_%28pixinn.net%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="225" height="225" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/ForbiddenCity_MaoZedongPortrait_%28pixinn.net%29.jpg/338px-ForbiddenCity_MaoZedongPortrait_%28pixinn.net%29.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/ForbiddenCity_MaoZedongPortrait_%28pixinn.net%29.jpg/450px-ForbiddenCity_MaoZedongPortrait_%28pixinn.net%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1081" data-file-height="1080" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:ForbiddenCity_MaoZedongPortrait_(pixinn.net).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Mao Zedong and his legacy.</div></div></div> <p>Apart from China itself, several Communist movements in <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a>, Central <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a> claimed an explicit adherence to Maoism. Despite significant political differences, <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Rouge" title="Khmer Rouge">Khmer Rouge</a> was considered almost a recreation of Mao's Chinese Communist party (down to the extreme, culturally motivated purges).<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[41]</a></sup> However, many such parties are no longer exclusively agrarian in focus, placing a dual emphasis on both rural and urban workers. </p> <h4><span id=""Dengism""></span><span class="mw-headline" id=".22Dengism.22">"Dengism"</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: "Dengism"">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h4> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping" title="Deng Xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping</a></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Socialism and market economy are not incompatible... We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Deng Xiaoping.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44">[42]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Since Mao had brought the country to the brink of ruin, Maoist ideology was mostly discredited as an actual guideline for governing the <a href="/wiki/Nation" title="Nation">nation</a>. His eventual successor, Deng Xiaoping, effectively abandoned it by promoting pragmatic developmental policies, so today's China is a booming capitalist economy ruled by an <a href="/wiki/Authoritarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoritarian">authoritarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Oligarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Oligarchy">oligarchy</a>, which has recently been <a href="/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">sliding pretty fucking close</a> to <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45">[43]</a></sup> However, because of Mao's status as a <a href="/wiki/Personality_cult" title="Personality cult">larger-than-life figure</a> in Chinese politics, and especially the CCP, Maoism is still upheld as a part of "Deng Xiaoping Theory".<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46">[44]</a></sup> </p><p>It is essential to note that economic liberalization did <i>not</i> result in more political or civil freedoms for the Chinese people. Deng oversaw the <a href="/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_Massacre" title="Tiananmen Square Massacre">Tiananmen Square Massacre</a>, a brutal crackdown on student protesters, the political fallout of which transformed his reform agenda into a post-Soviet style <a href="/wiki/Greed" title="Greed">wealth grab</a> by members of the party.<sup id="cite_ref-chinachange_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chinachange-47">[45]</a></sup> The Chinese economy now represents the worst excesses of capitalism, combined with the old communist system's structural brokenness. China now relies heavily on aggressive jingoistic nationalism to motivate its people.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48">[46]</a></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Libertarian_communism">Libertarian communism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Libertarian communism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Left communism and libertarian Marxism are forms of Marxism that leans away from the authoritarianism found in the Leninist lineage emphasize the anti-authoritarian bents in Marxism, with figures such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxembourg" class="extiw" title="wp:Rosa Luxembourg" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Rosa Luxembourg">Rosa Luxembourg</span></a>.<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Critical_theory">Critical theory</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Critical theory">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a> and other critical theorists are closely associated with Marxism, but generally see less political activism. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Non-Marxist_Communism">Non-Marxist Communism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Non-Marxist Communism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>While Marxism is by far the most immediate association with communism, forms of communism that are not Marxist exist and have some popularity. </p><p>"Utopian socialism" (a term coined by Engels, as opposed to scientific) promotes the construction of communes separate from society. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Fourier" title="Charles Fourier">Charles Fourier</a> was considered a utopian socialist and had an influence on the Paris Commune. </p><p>Anarchism has a storied history as it interplays with communism, and fusions exist. Anarcho-communism pushes for not just public ownership of means of production but also the dissolution of the state. <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Kropotkin">Peter Kropotkin</a> is perhaps the most well-known anarcho-communist theorist, along with <a href="/wiki/Emma_Goldman" title="Emma Goldman">Emma Goldman</a>. Anarcho-syndicalists are very much related, and include the likes of Rudolf Rocker, Murray Bookchin, and <a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a>. <a href="/wiki/IWW" class="mw-redirect" title="IWW">Wobblies</a> are known for their anarchist leanings. The black bloc of the Russian revolution (such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina" class="extiw" title="wp:Makhnovshchina" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Makhnovshchina">Makhnovshchina</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> the short-lived period of revolutionary Catalonia, and <a href="/wiki/Rojava" class="mw-redirect" title="Rojava">Rojava</a> (depending on who you ask) are examples of anarcho-communism in practice. </p><p>Religious communism integrates religious teachings with socialist beliefs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_communism" class="extiw" title="wp:Christian communism" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Christian communism">Christian communism</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> for example, uses the <a href="/wiki/Gospels" title="Gospels">Gospels</a> and the teachings of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> therein as inspiration for a communitarian life style. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Communism_as_implemented">Communism as implemented</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Communism as implemented">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Choeungek2.JPG" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Choeungek2.JPG/250px-Choeungek2.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Choeungek2.JPG/375px-Choeungek2.JPG 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Choeungek2.JPG/500px-Choeungek2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Choeungek2.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Skulls of <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Rouge" title="Khmer Rouge">Khmer Rouge</a> victims.</div></div></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">[47]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>What was espoused by Karl Marx differs significantly from what has been put into practice. Indeed, there has never been (and may never be) a "pure" communist society based solely on Marx's ideas; the most visible "communist" states have been single-party states applying Lenin's theory. Much of this is undoubtedly attributable to the fact that Marx left a great deal of his work unfinished and that Vladimir Lenin engaged in a campaign to rectify this by making a complete <a href="/wiki/Worldview" title="Worldview">worldview</a> out of Marx's philosophy — what was later called Leninism (Marxism-Leninism, contrary to its name, was not developed by Lenin but instead by Stalin after Lenin's death<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">[48]</a></sup>). However, Lenin also deviated a good deal from what Marx <i>had</i> said (as detailed above). There is a reason why even the Soviets started using the phrase "actually existing socialism" to describe themselves, after all... </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="General_problems">General problems</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: General problems">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Experience of the 20th century also showed that the vanguardist revolutionary method, as espoused by Lenin's misinterpretation of the <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat" class="mw-redirect" title="Dictatorship of the proletariat">dictatorship of the proletariat</a>, conceived as a means of defending the revolution, led not to the destruction of the state but to its reinforcement and degeneration into state capitalism and <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a>. This has become rather a touchy subject to bring up.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">[49]</a></sup> This isn't the case for every leftist government: some have historically managed to stay respectful of rights and democracy (<i>e.g.</i>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova" class="extiw" title="wp:Moldova" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Moldova">Moldova</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>), and it is not uncommon for communist parties to govern as part of broader left-wing coalitions (<i>e.g.</i>, the <a href="/wiki/French" class="mw-redirect" title="French">French</a> Popular Front in the 1930s and the communist wing of the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a>). However, these governments and coalitions have all been constrained by liberal-democratic, non-communist constitutions guaranteeing <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">free speech</a>, free elections, and the <a href="/wiki/Rights" title="Rights">right</a> to dissent. </p> <ul><li>The introduction of democratic government to communist dictatorships has been invariably followed by that country abandoning communism as its official ideology.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a></sup> Well-known examples are <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>. However, after the breakup of communist states, not everything was sunshine and roses. For example, <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a> descended into a <a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars" title="Yugoslav Wars">series of bloody inter-ethnic wars</a>. At the same time, Russia had to deal with <a href="/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a>'s incompetent economic reforms, which resulted in an economic collapse worse than the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53">[51]</a></sup></li> <li>The planned economies of Marxist-Leninist countries have proven themselves unable to match the levels of growth and economic benefits found in less strictly controlled economic systems. While the Soviet Union, post-Stalin, had the second-highest nominal GDP in the world and was a pioneer in the space program, its economy eventually stagnated by the 1970s, which forced the introduction of economic reforms by <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55">[53]</a></sup> Whatever remains of communism in countries like China and Vietnam has been deconstructed into authoritarian capitalism.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56">[54]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a></sup> The states that followed this path now have market economies connected to global trade, but they are no less dictatorial. On the other hand, <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> have not allowed very many market reforms. One can clearly see the state of their economies, with North Korea struggling to meet even the most <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">basic needs of its citizens</a>.</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Crimes_against_humanity">Crimes against humanity</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Crimes against humanity">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Holomor_Art_Denysenko_1.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Holomor_Art_Denysenko_1.jpg/200px-Holomor_Art_Denysenko_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="268" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Holomor_Art_Denysenko_1.jpg/300px-Holomor_Art_Denysenko_1.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Holomor_Art_Denysenko_1.jpg/400px-Holomor_Art_Denysenko_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3572" data-file-height="4782" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Holomor_Art_Denysenko_1.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/wiki/Holodomor" title="Holodomor">Holodomor</a> remembrance art.</div></div></div> <p>Totalitarian communist governments have been responsible for many mass slaughters, often considered <a href="/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">genocides</a>. Most historians accept a rough number of around 20 million, including famine victims, for the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and provisionally somewhere between 2 and 3 million for <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Rouge" title="Khmer Rouge">Khmer Rouge</a>, of whom roughly half were executed outright. In <a href="/wiki/Mao_Tse-Tung" class="mw-redirect" title="Mao Tse-Tung">Maoist</a> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, there's still little consensus, and for the Great Leap Forward alone, estimates of excess deaths range from 15 to 40 million. Furthermore, it is certainly fair to suggest that for every one individual taken away and either deported, sent to a prison camp, or executed, there were likely many more who faced intimidating questioning by the secret police, lost their apartments, jobs, or life chances for education, and more still who lived in reasonable fear of these kinds of losses.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a></sup> </p><p>Other examples of human rights violations and crimes against humanity include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> under <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/German_Democratic_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="German Democratic Republic">German Democratic Republic</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi" class="extiw" title="wp:Stasi" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Stasi">Stasi</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a> Under <a href="/wiki/Tito" class="mw-redirect" title="Tito">Tito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> under <a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Nicolae Ceaușescu">Nicolae Ceaușescu</a></li></ul> <p>And the list goes on and on. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Final_remnants">Final remnants</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Final remnants">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Press_conference,_Havana.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Press_conference%2C_Havana.jpg/300px-Press_conference%2C_Havana.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="169" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Press_conference%2C_Havana.jpg/450px-Press_conference%2C_Havana.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Press_conference%2C_Havana.jpg/600px-Press_conference%2C_Havana.jpg 2x" data-file-width="860" data-file-height="484" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Press_conference,_Havana.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Communism shakes hands with capitalism.</div></div></div> <p>As it stands, there are only a few remaining nation-states that proclaim themselves communist, and it is evident how well the judgment of history will handle them. These systems are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castro" class="mw-redirect" title="Castro">Castroism</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>: Cuba actually boasts a very high average life expectancy due to <a href="/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="Universal health care">socialized health care</a>(the spite of dilapidated hospitals<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59">[57]</a></sup>) and has evaded the issues of <a href="/wiki/Overpopulation" title="Overpopulation">overpopulation</a> (thanks to the country having one of the highest abortion rates in the world; the aforementioned very-high-average-life-expectancy can also be attributed to that<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60">[58]</a></sup>) and <a href="/wiki/Pollution" title="Pollution">pollution</a> that has plagued China. However, Cuba's economic gains have never materialized, partially due to a US economic and commercial blockade.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a></sup> Nonetheless, Cuba can boast some of Latin America's highest living standards, especially when compared to other Caribbean countries.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62">[60]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63">[61]</a></sup> Of course, this isn't exactly an achievement, considering the rest of the region was ruled by moronic tinpot military dictatorships, almost all backed by the United States, while Cuba received absurd amounts of Soviet funding.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64">[62]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65">[63]</a></sup> Like North Korea, the loss of the Soviet Union and thus funding and a market for their goods regardless of quality only made Soviet-style communism harder for Cuba. The Cuban government is a dictatorship that holds many political prisoners in horrible conditions while brutally suppressing <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">freedom of speech</a>, all this even after their new president's accession.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66">[64]</a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Juche" title="Juche">Juche</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>: called a "mausotocracy" by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" title="Christopher Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</a>, this society insists that <a href="/wiki/Kim_Il-sung" title="Kim Il-sung">Kim Il-sung</a> is the Eternal President of the Republic, despite his noticeable lack of pulse, heartbeat, respiration, or brain activity since 1994. His <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-il" title="Kim Jong-il">son</a> and now <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" title="Kim Jong-un">grandson</a>, therefore, are perpetually playing second fiddle as Supreme Leader. Despite its clear influences, North Korea has actually removed all references to communism from its constitution, and today, Juche is a bizarre mix of ultra-<a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jingoism" title="Jingoism">militarism</a>, and Kim <a href="/wiki/Cult" title="Cult">worship</a>. It has a horrifying human rights record.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67">[65]</a></sup> And, of course, it's still regularly used for <a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">red-baiting</a>: those who exhibit any kind of leftist ideas are often told to go to North Korea if they love socialism so much!</li> <li>Maoism with <s>Deng Xiaoping</s> Xi Jinping Thought in China: it's basically "market socialism."<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68">[note 3]</a></sup> Despite having the fastest-growing economy on Earth, the Chinese industrial existence is, <a href="/wiki/Ironic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ironic">ironically</a>, on par with the working conditions in Soho, which repelled Marx when he was initially writing <i>Das Kapital</i>. You could say that the Chinese system is the only form of "communism" that actually works, but considering their record on <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights" title="Civil rights">civil rights</a> (think the <a href="/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_Massacre" title="Tiananmen Square Massacre">Tiananmen massacre</a> and the <a href="/wiki/One-child_policy" title="One-child policy">one-child policy</a>), that might be a bit of a stretch. China claims to be going back into more Mao-inspired policies in the future.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>: still ostensibly Marxist-Leninist. Vietnam has gone in the direction of China's market socialism. Laos, at present, has only introduced limited market reforms.</li></ul> <h2><span id="Is_communism_at_all_workable?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Is_communism_at_all_workable.3F">Is communism at all workable?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Is communism at all workable?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Anticommunism.PNG" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Anticommunism.PNG" decoding="async" width="200" height="281" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="281" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Anticommunism.PNG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Warning: Historical hazard. Please dispose of properly.</div></div></div> <p>It depends on what you mean by "communism" and what you mean by "workable." </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Current_status">Current status</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Current status">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>While the 20th-century Marxist-Leninist states had some bright spots, like the Soviet Union's industrialization and investment in science and space exploration, they also left a trail of blood and pollution in their wake. Their legacy of failure is impossible to ignore. China can hardly be called communist anymore and now more closely resembles a far-right authoritarian state. Similarly, the Soviet experiment was destroyed by Stalin's brutality and put out of its misery by the Gorbachev reforms. </p><p>Previous experiments in communism, whether fundamentally capitalist (Jamestown, <a href="/wiki/Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia">VA</a>) or utopian (the Oneida community), lasted only for, at most, a couple of generations before being torn apart by internal dissent.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69">[note 4]</a></sup> Besides, the confusion about communism and the politics of the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Warsaw Pact</a> community has stained the name of communism to the point that even if it was tweaked into a workable form, some other word for it would have to be found. </p><p>Not all post-communist states successfully transitioned into democracy and capitalist economies. For instance, many former Warsaw Pact states underwent economic shock therapy and massive privatization programs, which led to periods of massive wealth inequality, unemployment, and loss of social welfare. In other cases, communist politicians simply rebranded themselves as social democrats and continued to run the show, with many gobbling up former state-owned enterprises for themselves. Yugoslavia disintegrated into a series of wars over ethnic and religious lines, and <a href="/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a> ran Russia like a circus by introducing widely unpopular economic reforms, creating a new class of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oligarchs" class="extiw" title="wp:oligarchs" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: oligarchs">oligarchs</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> and unemployment as high as 40%. These economic uncertainties, along with events such as the 2008 financial crisis and the current European refugee crisis, have led many disillusioned people to long for the <a href="/wiki/Good_old_days" title="Good old days">good old days</a> under communism and, in other cases, to elect authoritarian strongmen such as Russia's <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> and Hungary's <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n" title="Viktor Orbán">Viktor Orbán</a>. </p><p>Critics of communism tend to fault it for its hyper-idealistic egalitarianism, based on the assumption that a state set up to fade away is a sitting target for authoritarians and <a href="/wiki/Welfare_queen" title="Welfare queen">slackers</a> and that there would be no incentive to excel in any given field. Besides, the planned economy aspects of Soviet Communism, in particular, have consistently failed due to an ideology that proved unable to react to the slightest outside changes. </p> <h3><span id="Viability?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Viability.3F">Viability?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Viability?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>The question then becomes this: what does this "<a href="/wiki/Great_Apostasy" title="Great Apostasy">great apostasy</a>" say about the viability of Marxism? Opinions run the gamut: </p> <ul><li>Some (<a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, for example<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70">[note 5]</a></sup>) say that Marxism's highly theoretical and <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogmatic</a> nature can cause its more enthusiastic devotees to become isolated from the proletariat at large — thus almost ensuring that any successful communist takeover will result in a dictatorship of some sort.</li> <li>Some argue that the tendency of communists to only look at society in terms of classes and to only care about the well-being of the "underclass" while being highly dismissive, if not contemptuous, of those who fall into the category of the "overclass", nearly ensures mass slaughter and/or repression would come about by a communist takeover due to the <a href="/wiki/War_crimes" title="War crimes">obvious</a> <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">problems</a> with declaring a good chunk of society is virtually "free game" during a revolution merely for being members of the <a href="/wiki/Infidel" title="Infidel">wrong class</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71">[note 6]</a></sup> Also, this analysis does not take individual rights into consideration but only what is good for the underclass as a whole, whose very nature is often conveniently defined by communist leaders themselves (i.e., often translating to "those who agree with us").<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72">[66]</a></sup></li> <li>Some claim that while communism had its uses at the time, the <a href="/wiki/Globalization" title="Globalization">nature of modern economies</a> — even if you were able to separate the human rights issues — makes it quickly outdated and solely the domain of <a href="/wiki/Moonbat" title="Moonbat">moonbats</a>. Having full state control of the economy can be workable and even helpful when your economy is small and dysfunctional. Still, when it starts growing, the central bureaucracy grows increasingly incompetent at managing economic affairs. Command economies often follow the pattern of first causing mass deprivation and starvation, then <a href="/wiki/Conservapedia:This_site_is_growing_rapidly!" title="Conservapedia:This site is growing rapidly!">growing rapidly</a> with attendant increases in life expectancy, then stalling, then collapsing or stagnating, necessitating the introduction of market reforms.</li> <li>Some suggest that Marxism is by itself just a relatively harmless pile of <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">bullshit</a>, especially as it concerns economics. Still, it can easily be hijacked by a dictatorial methodology like Leninism so that when its economic methods do not work, anyone who tries to point out that the Emperor has no clothes on can be conveniently silenced.</li> <li>Some (significantly reduced in number since the Soviet gravy train derailed) continue to support Marxism's core ideas and work toward the proletarian revolution using a wide variety of methodologies, with a certain hope of a pure communist society to come.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73">[note 7]</a></sup></li> <li>Some reject Marxism in its original form but think the core ideas — such as class struggles (generalized into conflict theory) and the comparatively idyllic world spoiled by one of these classes' ascendancy — are still worthwhile. Indeed, Marxist historical analysis, a distinctly different beast from communism in and of itself, is generally considered a useful tool for understanding quite a bit of history<sup>[<a href="/wiki/Help:References" title="Help:References"><i>citation needed</i></a>]</sup>.</li></ul> <p>Also, although state-imposed collectivism did not work out so well, private corporations run as collectives<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74">[note 8]</a></sup> do <i>slightly better</i> than companies based on a more traditional hierarchy, and even if Marx was somewhat naive about economics (and, in hindsight, every economist from the 19th century and prior looks somewhat naive about economics: for example the labor theory of value, the discrediting of which forms the basis for much of the modern economic critique of Marxism, was not unique to Marxism by a long shot, being supported by the father of capitalism himself, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Smith" title="Adam Smith">Adam Smith</a>) his contributions as a historian and pioneering work in the then-nascent field of sociology shouldn't be overlooked or understated. It's reasonable to look at the train wreck of communism in practice as an utter failure, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything to learn from it. </p> <h3><span id="Communist_or_not?"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Communist_or_not.3F">Communist or not?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Communist or not?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Again, advocates of communism look at the failure of every attempt to implement communism and argue that those societies were not really communist - either for immediate, local reasons or for the blanket reason that none of them have taken place in advanced industrial societies, which (for Marx, at least) would doom them to failure, or attribute them to social conditions inherited from prior regimes. In most cases, communist governments didn't necessarily follow Marx's theories as set out, and corruption and cronyism were rampant; Marx certainly wouldn't have approved of that or the use of tactics by the governing authorities that he considered reserved for the use of the proletariat at large, such as expropriation.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75">[67]</a></sup> However, Marx's antipathy towards the bourgeoisie was used as an excuse to kill millions (especially in China and Cambodia, but more famously Ukrainian country folk in the USSR) because they were branded "petty-bourgeois counter-revolutionaries" for the crime of looking cross-eyed at the <i>nomenklatura</i>. </p><p>Additionally, it might be worth looking at forms of libertarian Marxism and libertarian communism before generalizing history's bloody communist dictatorships as the whole of communism. To summarize, communism is a classless, "democratic" (Marx called for 'self-government of the commune' in response to Bakunin's accusations that he wished for a minority dictatorship) and international society. There are different theories as to how such a regime should be organized, for example: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Anarchism#Anarcho-syndicalism" title="Anarchism">anarcho-syndicalists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daniel_De_Leon" title="Daniel De Leon">De Leonists</a> wish for a Socialist Industrial Union.</li> <li>Mutualists (inspired by the ideas of Proudhon) wish for a non-capitalist <a href="/wiki/Free_market" title="Free market">free market</a> (often claiming that the capitalist market can never have anything to do with 'freedom').</li> <li>Other socialists wish for a system of workers' councils (though these can often be compared to the syndicalist <a href="/wiki/Trade_union" title="Trade union">unions</a>), as in the "soviets," which represented the working class in Russia until Lenin's <i><a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27etat" class="mw-redirect" title="Coup d'etat">coup d'etat</a></i>. The workers had also taken over factories, instituting elected and recallable factory committees that ran them under their ultimate control before Lenin took over. Such "worker self-management" has also been a crucial part of socialism in both <a href="/wiki/Socialism#Libertarian_socialism" title="Socialism">libertarian Marxist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anarchist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anarchist">anarchist</a> tendencies or schools of thought. However, they are split into two camps: <a href="/wiki/Left_communism" title="Left communism">left communism</a> and council communism. Council communism aims to use trade unions, political parties, and mass strikes to achieve socialism, while left communists believe such actions betray the working class's spontaneity.</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="The_few_examples_when_communism_worked_out_relatively_fine">The few examples when communism worked out relatively fine</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: The few examples when communism worked out relatively fine">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Colonne_vendome.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Colonne_vendome.jpg/300px-Colonne_vendome.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="227" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Colonne_vendome.jpg/450px-Colonne_vendome.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Colonne_vendome.jpg/600px-Colonne_vendome.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1516" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Colonne_vendome.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Paris communards pose with the fallen statue of <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte" title="Napoleon Bonaparte">Napoleon Bonaparte</a>.</div></div></div> <ul><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune" class="extiw" title="wp:Paris Commune" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Paris Commune">Paris Commune</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> was an upheaval that took place in 1871. To this day, it remains a reference for the French left as a whole, as it advanced many major left-wing themes (feminism, secularism, direct democracy...). It remained pluralistic throughout, but in the context of open civil war, it eventually repressed those who overtly supported its enemies — who were much worse in that regard. It was a major influence on Karl Marx himself.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76">[note 9]</a></sup> It lasted barely more than two months, as it was brutally crushed.</li> <li>The communists and anarchists before and during the Spanish Civil War had created a very free and prosperous society, as recounted in George Orwell's <i>Homage to Catalonia</i>. <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco"><s>Franco</s></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Days" class="extiw" title="wp:May Days" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: May Days">Stalinists</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> crushed them. Though it's worth noting that there was a rather nasty <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain)" class="extiw" title="wp:Red Terror (Spain)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Red Terror (Spain)">Red Terror</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> so it wasn't a total success from a human rights point of view (even if they were <a href="/wiki/Not_as_bad_as" title="Not as bad as">better than</a> <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">the Whites</a>).</li> <li>In a similar vein, the Ukrainian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina" class="extiw" title="wp:Makhnovshchina" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Makhnovshchina">Free Territory</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> had an anarcho-communistic government during the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a>. However, it was also destroyed militarily (not by the White Guards, even — in fact, the insurgent army fought Denikin's army successfully — but rather by the Bolsheviks themselves).<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77">[68]</a></sup></li> <li>The Yugoslav workers' self-management worked out for a little while.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kibbutz" class="extiw" title="wp:kibbutz" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: kibbutz">kibbutzim</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> — however, as with anything involving Jews or leftism, there are about as many philosophies of how to do kibbutzim "right" as there are kibbutzim.</li> <li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Oaks_Community" class="extiw" title="wp:Twin Oaks Community" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Twin Oaks Community">Twin Oaks Community</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> is currently working right now.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinaleda" class="extiw" title="wp:Marinaleda" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Marinaleda">Marinaleda</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> a municipality in Spain, is doing surprisingly well.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, of all places, a communist government was elected in Kerala. The state has (through a combination of reasons, especially overseas remittances by expatriates and the communists moderating their policies in practice) flourished with relatively few missteps. Compared to much of the country, Kerala is relatively well-developed. Whether this is <a href="/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation" title="Correlation does not imply causation">correlation vs. causation</a> is still debatable. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Kerala" class="extiw" title="wp:Economy of Kerala" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Economy of Kerala">More on that here</span></a>.<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup></li> <li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation" class="extiw" title="wp:Zapatista Army of National Liberation" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Zapatista Army of National Liberation">Zapatista Army of National Liberation</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> aka EZLN, has been doing its thing in Chiapas since 1994, and its coffee cooperatives ensure that they're not going anywhere anytime soon.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava" class="extiw" title="wp:Rojava" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Rojava">Rojava</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> despite being in a <i>brutal</i> civil war, is doing pretty well for itself.</li></ul> <p>Suppose any conclusions can be drawn from what these examples all have in common. In that case, working communism needs a minimum of top-down authority (all examples are varied ways of "bottom-up") and to avoid being crushed by any self-declared communists surrounding it who have a more "top-down" approach to things. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Derivative_philosophies">Derivative philosophies</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Derivative philosophies">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Besides communism, there are many different ideologies and schools of thought based on Marx's views. </p><p>There still is a great deal <a href="/wiki/Academic" class="mw-redirect" title="Academic">academics</a> find useful in Marxism as a research tool. For example, Marxist historians focus on economic relationships and progress in history and believe financial motivations and class consciousness to be the most important underlying causes of change (or, in layman's terms, <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a>, in fact, does make the world go round, but you'll always get screwed by the rich man). Marxist history is a school of social history, focusing primarily on the conditions of the (working class) majority rather than on the deeds of <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">kings</a> and leaders.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78">[note 10]</a></sup> There are similar Marxist forms of sociology and cultural theory. Marx's outline of how capitalism works is still taught in economics, though it's not considered the whole story. </p><p>There are many variants of the idea of some underclass being exploited or oppressed by some upper class and the need for that underclass to unite and make a revolution. The second wave of <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a> most active in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as <a href="/wiki/Radical_feminism" title="Radical feminism">radical feminism</a>, viewed women as the underclass. <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">Nationalism</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79">[note 11]</a></sup> particularly among <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonialism">colonized</a> peoples, may view the colonized nation as the underclass; an example of this is the strong nationalistic elements in the ideology of left-wing governments in former territories occupied by empires. This often leads to the strange result of leftists supporting nationalist movements in far-off places that do things they would be up in arms against were they to happen in their own country, up to and including the <a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">suppression of communist opposition</a>. <a href="/wiki/Identity_politics" title="Identity politics">Identity politics</a> abstracts the idea entirely and allows the selection of an arbitrary underclass, thus giving rise to such phenomena as "<a href="/wiki/Race" title="Race">ethnic</a> studies," "<a href="/wiki/Queer" title="Queer">queer</a> studies," "<a href="/wiki/Disability" title="Disability">disabled</a> studies," <i>etc.</i> The feminist, black militant, and gay rights movements of the later 1960s and 1970s were informed by a Marxist outlook, including the <a href="/wiki/Black_Panther_Party" title="Black Panther Party">Black Panthers</a>, as <a href="/wiki/David_Horowitz" title="David Horowitz">David Horowitz</a> loves to remind us of frequently. So scary. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Socialism#Libertarian_socialism" title="Socialism">Libertarian communism</a> is an elimination of the state similar to Marxist communism, but it claims to be a part of the <a href="/wiki/Libertarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian">libertarian</a> family. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Communism_and_religion">Communism and religion</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Communism and religion">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Christ_saviour_explosion.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Christ_saviour_explosion.jpg/300px-Christ_saviour_explosion.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="229" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Christ_saviour_explosion.jpg/450px-Christ_saviour_explosion.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Christ_saviour_explosion.jpg/600px-Christ_saviour_explosion.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="610" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Christ_saviour_explosion.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Demolition of the original Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, 1931.</div></div></div> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Marx_on_religion">Marx on religion</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Marx on religion">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Karl Marx famously said that religion was "<a href="/wiki/Drug" title="Drug">the opiate of the people</a>." Or, in full: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Religion is, indeed, the self-<a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man—state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general <a href="/wiki/Theory" title="Theory">theory</a> of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum" title="Argumentum ad populum">logic in popular form</a>, its <a href="/wiki/Spiritual" title="Spiritual">spiritual</a> point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. Therefore, the struggle against religion is indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering at one and the same time. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the <a href="/wiki/Magic" title="Magic">illusory</a> happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. Therefore, the criticism of religion is in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Of course, these were simply Marx's beliefs. Religious socialism still exists, as the system of communism is itself not opposed to religion, and indeed, many Christians with socialist sympathies have drawn on the words of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> himself in defense of socialism and other anti-capitalist social teachings. Marx did not advocate the banning of religion, instead arguing that it is merely a way to cope and see something bright at the end of the tunnel when one is faced with the injustices of feudal and capitalist society. He says that the criticism of religion is thus the criticism of the conditions that breed it. In an interview later on, Marx dismissed violent measures against religion as "nonsense" and stated the opinion (he specified that it was an <a href="/wiki/Opinion" title="Opinion">opinion</a>) that "as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a> must play a part." </p> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Hujum.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Hujum.png/300px-Hujum.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="233" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Hujum.png/450px-Hujum.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Hujum.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="465" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Hujum.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Hijab burning ceremony in the Uzbek SSR, 1927.</div></div></div> <p>As for the phrase itself, opium in Marx's time was an important painkiller, a source of extraordinary visions for 'opium eaters,' the cause of important conflicts such as the Opium Wars, and also used by parents to keep their children quiet. Marx was likely alluding to all of these. </p><p>Despite Marx's view that religion could co-exist with communism, many communist states have cracked down on religious groups or banned them altogether. For example, the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a> had for hundreds of years been a powerful institution in Russia and had many ties to the former czarist regime. Hence, in the mind of the Soviet leaders, the church formed an institutional threat to its existence and had to be controlled. Albania under <a href="/wiki/Enver_Hoxha" title="Enver Hoxha">Enver Hoxha</a> banned religion altogether, claiming that it had kept Albania back for many years. China tightly regulates religion within its borders, barring the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Church" title="Church">churches</a> not under the direct control of the state, leading to a burgeoning <a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">Evangelical</a> <a href="/wiki/Protestant" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> "house church" movement. </p><p>These evolving, increasingly hostile attitudes can be read in parallel with the evolution of <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a>'s opinions toward the Jews. Initially, Luther viewed the Jews roughly the same way that Marx viewed religion, arguing that the Jews did not convert to Christianity due to their rotten treatment at the hands of the corrupt Catholic Church, leaving them with a terrible impression of the faith. When the Jews refused to give up their religion in favor of <i>Lutheranism</i>, Luther became more overtly anti-Semitic and started calling for the synagogues to be burned. The growing antipathy of the communists towards religion can be interpreted in much the same way. The initial idealism concerning the replacement of religion with communism faded in the face of religion having proved itself far more challenging to extinguish. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Religion_in_communism">Religion in communism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Religion in communism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>Marxism, despite generally rejecting the <a href="/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural">supernatural</a>, carries distinct <a href="/wiki/Millennialism" title="Millennialism">millennial</a> overtones about it. Although all sectors of Christianity at least nominally oppose orthodox Marxism due to its materialism, the non-millennial denominations have been most vocal in their opposition to communism. The Catholic Church, in particular, has explicitly condemned "<a href="/wiki/Secular_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Secular religion">secular messianism</a>" as a form of millennialism, specifically citing communism as an example.<sup id="cite_ref-Catechism676_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Catechism676-80">[69]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81">[70]</a></sup> </p> <div class="center"><div class="thumb tnone"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:277px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Liberation_Jesus.jpeg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/4/41/Liberation_Jesus.jpeg/275px-Liberation_Jesus.jpeg" decoding="async" width="275" height="271" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/4/41/Liberation_Jesus.jpeg 1.5x" data-file-width="353" data-file-height="348" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Liberation_Jesus.jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Yeah, get 'em, Jesus!</div></div></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Communism_and_rhetoric">Communism and rhetoric</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Communism and rhetoric">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Obamunism_meme.jpeg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/2/20/Obamunism_meme.jpeg/300px-Obamunism_meme.jpeg" decoding="async" width="300" height="253" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/2/20/Obamunism_meme.jpeg/450px-Obamunism_meme.jpeg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/2/20/Obamunism_meme.jpeg/600px-Obamunism_meme.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="808" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Obamunism_meme.jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Pop quiz for comprehension: which of the people depicted in this dumb conservative meme are <i>not</i> communists?</div></div></div> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Red_scare" class="mw-redirect" title="Red scare">Red scare</a></div> <p>Communists are frequently alleged to be the true force behind the UN or some other scheme for a <a href="/wiki/New_World_Order" title="New World Order">New World Order</a> or <a href="/wiki/One_world_government" title="One world government">one world government</a>. These <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy theories">conspiracy theories</a> are sometimes tied into <a href="/wiki/Anti-Semitism" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Semitism">anti-Semitism</a> and the idea of an <a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy" title="International Jewish conspiracy">international Jewish conspiracy</a> because many <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jews</a> were aligned with leftist politics. Its latest incarnation is the <a href="/wiki/Cultural_Marxism" title="Cultural Marxism">Cultural Marxism</a> conspiracy theory favored by <a href="/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right">alt-right</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gamergate" title="Gamergate">Gamergate</a> wingnuts. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Wingnut" title="Wingnut">Wingnuts</a> also ascribe to the word "communism" quite a different meaning: "Any policy or belief that is insufficiently <a href="/wiki/Right-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Right-wing">right-wing</a> for my taste," or "any policy which promotes racial <a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">equality</a> and integration." You can thank <a href="/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" title="Joseph McCarthy">Joseph McCarthy</a> for that. </p><p>In response to the perceived threat by the USSR, the USA engaged in acts of <a href="/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy" title="Gunboat diplomacy">gunboat diplomacy</a>, especially in its <a href="/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine" title="Monroe Doctrine">sphere of influence</a>. This meant it toppled left-wing nationalists such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh" class="extiw" title="wp:Mohammad Mosaddegh" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Mohammad Mosaddegh">Mohammad Mosaddegh</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_%C3%81rbenz" class="extiw" title="wp:Jacobo Árbenz" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Jacobo Árbenz">Jacobo Árbenz</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Salvador_Allende" title="Salvador Allende">Salvador Allende</a> to prevent them from cozying up with the Soviets and tolerated corrupt, authoritarian dictators such as <a href="/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet" title="Augusto Pinochet">Augusto Pinochet</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Suharto_family&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suharto family (page does not exist)">Suharto</a>, as long as they were anti-communist. This has ramifications and <a href="/wiki/Blowback" title="Blowback">blowback</a> even after the Cold War ended, with the <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Islamic Republic of Iran</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> both having their roots resulting from US intervention against communism and Soviet influence. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Quotes_about_communism">Quotes about communism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Quotes about communism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Communism was a gigantic façade, and the reality concealed behind it was the sheer drive for power, for total power as an end in itself. The rest was merely instrumental—a matter of tactics and some necessary self-restrictions to achieve the desired end.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Leszek Kołakowski.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82">[71]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>[O]nly one so-called revolution puts itself above God, insists on total control over the peoples' lives, and is driven by the desire to seize more and more lands... I have one question for those rulers: If communism is the wave of the future, why do you still need walls to keep people in and armies of secret police to keep them quiet?</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>, 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83">[note 12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84">[72]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Karl Marx, <i>The Communist Manifesto</i></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Attributed to <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85">[73]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every <a href="/wiki/Kool-Aid_drinker" class="mw-redirect" title="Kool-Aid drinker">fruit-juice drinker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nudity" title="Nudity">nudist</a>, sandal-wearer, <a href="/wiki/Pervert" title="Pervert">sex-maniac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaker">Quaker</a>, 'Nature Cure' <a href="/wiki/Quack" class="mw-redirect" title="Quack">quack</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pacifism" title="Pacifism">pacifist</a>, and feminist in England.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <i>The Road to Wigan Pier</i></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Contemporary communism is not only a party of a certain type, or a bureaucracy which has sprung from monopolistic ownership and excessive state interference in the economy. More than anything else, the essential aspect of contemporary communism is the new class of owners and exploiters.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milovan_Djilas" class="extiw" title="wp:Milovan Djilas" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Milovan Djilas">Milovan Djilas</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup>, <i>The New Class</i>, 1957</cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Pinko_commie">Pinko commie</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Pinko commie">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>"Pinko commie" is a phrase used in parodies or mockeries of opponents of communism, particularly those from the <a href="/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" title="Joseph McCarthy">McCarthy</a> era. </p><p>"Pinko" refers to someone who is not themself a communist but who sympathizes with communism (hence "pink", not quite red). Consequently, "pinko commie" is arguably (logically) an <a href="/wiki/Oxymoron" title="Oxymoron">oxymoron</a>. </p><p>The phrase started gaining popularity as a description of the communist movement as early as the 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86">[74]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notable_communists">Notable communists</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Notable communists">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="div-col columns column-count column-count-3" style="-moz-column-count: 3; -webkit-column-count: 3; column-count: 3;"> <ul><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five" class="extiw" title="wp:Cambridge Five" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Cambridge Five">Cambridge Five</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> Soviet infiltrators in <a href="/wiki/Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Britain">Britain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>, former dictator of <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> 1959-2008</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Cliff" title="Tony Cliff">Tony Cliff</a>, British Trotskyist who influenced <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" title="Christopher Hitchens">Christopher Hitchens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_De_Leon" title="Daniel De Leon">Daniel De Leon</a>, American socialist whose views were more akin to anarcho-syndicalism</li> <li>Farrell Dobbs, Teamsters' union activist, leader of the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a>, dictator of writing</li> <li>André Gide, (disillusioned) author best known for the "lifeboat dilemma"</li> <li>Antonio Gramsci, Marxist philosopher, inventor of "cultural <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hegemony&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hegemony (page does not exist)">hegemony</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>, henchman of Castro, t-shirt icon</li> <li>Woody Guthrie, folk singer</li> <li>Dorothy Healey, union activist, radio host (small "c" communist after 1973)</li> <li>Eric Hobsbawm, a famed British Marxist historian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enver_Hoxha" title="Enver Hoxha">Enver Hoxha</a>, dictator of Albania, 1944-1985</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alger_Hiss" title="Alger Hiss">Alger Hiss</a>, US government official and alleged Soviet Spy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Jones" title="Jim Jones">Jim Jones</a>, cult leader of the People's Temple</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-il" title="Kim Jong-il">Kim Jong-il</a>, dictator of <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> 1994-2011</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" title="Kim Jong-un">Kim Jong-un</a>, dictator of North Korea 2011-present</li> <li>Karl Kautsky, an early critic of the <a href="/wiki/Bolshevik" title="Bolshevik">Bolsheviks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Kochiyama" title="Yuri Kochiyama">Yuri Kochiyama</a>, a controversial Japanese-American civil rights activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Koestler" title="Arthur Koestler">Arthur Koestler</a>, (disillusioned) author and <a href="/wiki/Pseudohistorian" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudohistorian">pseudohistorian</a> whose best-known work is <i>Darkness at Noon</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Kropotkin" title="Pyotr Kropotkin">Pyotr Kropotkin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zoologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoologist">zoologist</a> and founder of <a href="/wiki/Anarchism#Types_of_anarchism" title="Anarchism">Anarcho-communism</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>, dictator of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">USSR</a> 1917-1924</li> <li>Rosa Luxemburg, German communist activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a>, the one who got the ball rolling</li> <li>Mengistu Haile Mariam, dictator of <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wp:Ho Chi Minh" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> dictator of <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a> 1945-1969</li> <li>Pablo Picasso, painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pol_Pot" title="Pol Pot">Pol Pot</a>, dictator of <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> 1975-1979</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Good_old_days#Arcadian_fantasies" title="Good old days">Pete Seeger</a>, folk singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, dictator of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> 1924; 1927-1953</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Il-sung" title="Kim Il-sung">Kim Il-sung</a>, dictator of North Korea, 1948-1994</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josip_Tito" class="mw-redirect" title="Josip Tito">Josip Tito</a>, dictator of <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, 1944-1980</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon "Snowball" Trotsky</a>, tried to get the chairman role in Soviet Union but failed and traveled to Mexico, where he lived until his death.</li> <li>Richard Wright, (disillusioned) author whose works include <i>Black Boy</i>, <i>Native Son</i>, and <i>The Outsider</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a>, dictator of <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> 1949-1976</li> <li>Abdullah Öcalan, former Marxist turned libertarian socialist after reading the works of Murray Bookchin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a>, the <i>dictator</i> of the band called the Beatles</li></ul></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Fascist_Protective_Wall" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Fascist Protective Wall">Anti-Fascist Protective Wall</a> (commonly known as the "Berlin wall")</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Command_economy" title="Command economy">Command economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">Equality</a> – The general basis of the projected communist society, in which all permanent hierarchies are abolished, including that of class.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87">[note 13]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_Massacre" title="Tiananmen Square Massacre">Tiananmen Square Massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_bolshevism" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish bolshevism">Jewish Bolshevism</a> — an anticommunist, anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that accuses Jews of causing the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society">John Birch Society</a> – the United States' most prominent anti-Communist organization (They didn't get the memo). A common figure of fun, even back then.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government" title="List of forms of government">List of forms of government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moral_panic" title="Moral panic">Moral panic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek" title="Slavoj Žižek">Slavoj Žižek</a> – anti-Stalinist, philosopher, and filmmaker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialism</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.marxists.org">Marxists.org</a>, your one-stop shop for Marxist theory</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://libcom.org/library">Libcom.org</a> The libertarian, anarchist variety.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS">International Journal of Zizek Studies</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/musframe.htm">Museum of Communism</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3z3eSVG7A">Jokes from Ronald Reagan on Communism</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGaosBHdFMA">Quotes on Communism from Liberty Prime</a>.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">This was when Marx made his famous remark that if their politics represented Marxism, he wasn't a Marxist.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">It's essential to explain that this "dictatorship" would be the democratic decision-making by the workers and stood in contrast to the "dictatorship of the bourgeois," where the decision-making is made in a mostly authoritarian manner by the owner class. The term was used because before a truly class- and state-less society was brought upon, the workers would be co-opting state power (which was seen as inherently authoritarian) to enact their democratic decision-making.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-68">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> If it can even be called that, as market socialism relies on democratic enterprises in a market system.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-69">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">The last such movement of any significance, the <a href="/wiki/Shakers" title="Shakers">Shakers</a>, is on the verge of dying out, with only two members left in its last known community in <a href="/wiki/Maine" class="mw-redirect" title="Maine">Maine</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-70">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">In his book <i>The Road to Wigan Pier</i>, he compared Marxism to Catholicism, with the Hegelian dialectic taking the place of the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-71">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">However, this criticism would only apply to either authoritarian communists or communists who advocate for a violent revolution. Communists who are non-violent and <a href="/wiki/Libertarian_socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian socialist">non-authoritarian</a> would usually be exempt from this.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-73">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Similarly, some Christians continue to work toward the elimination of all sin to bring about <a href="/wiki/Postmillennialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Postmillennialism">a thousand golden years on Earth</a> before <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> returns to cast sinners into the <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Lake of Fire</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-74">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Examples of companies run along collective lines include REI, King Arthur Flour, and the consortium responsible for Parmeggiano Reggiano cheese.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-76">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">It inspired his view of the <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat" class="mw-redirect" title="Dictatorship of the proletariat">dictatorship of the proletariat</a>. But according to him, one of the causes of its failure was that the Commune wasn't repressive enough towards its enemies. In turn, his critique influenced Lenin, so this was maybe how communism's reputation for authoritarianism started in the first place.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-78">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">When this is applied to periods of history from which the only surviving records are of said kingly deeds, this must result in at least some speculation, which perhaps opened the door for the historical <a href="/wiki/Negationism" class="mw-redirect" title="Negationism">negationism</a> so common among communist historians (most notably in the Soviet Union, where people questioning official Party history could be conveniently clapped in the <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">gulag</a>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-79">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">For which Marx, incidentally, had nothing but disdain</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-83">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Like, <a href="/wiki/Stopped_clock" title="Stopped clock">really, he actually did say this</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-87">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">However, without due diligence to proper farm management, <a href="/wiki/Animal_Farm" title="Animal Farm">some animals wind up more equal than others.</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communism&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_ability,_to_each_according_to_his_needs" class="extiw" title="wp:From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" rel="nofollow">From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">History of Communism and Early Common Ownership<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism#History">[1]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/communism.html">Communism.</a> Business Dictionary</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://learneconomicsonline.com/marxist.php">Marxist Stage Theory</a>. <i>Learn Economics Online.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sageamericanhistory.net/gildedage/topics/capital_labor_immigration.html">The War Between Capital and Labor</a> <i>Sage American History</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thoughtco.com/the-downfall-of-communism-1779970">The Downfall of Communism</a>. <i>ThoughtCo.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/communist-countries/">Communist Countries 2019</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform" class="extiw" title="wp:Chinese economic reform" rel="nofollow">Chinese economic reform</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-northkorea-vietnam-reforms-analys/hammer-and-pickle-vietnam-style-reform-would-mean-big-changes-for-north-korea-idUSKCN1PV0AO">Vietnam-style reform would mean big changes for North Korea</a> <i>Reuters</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-politics-castro-changes-explaine/explainer-the-state-of-raul-castros-economic-reforms-in-cuba-idUSKBN1HO0CL">Explainer: The state of Raul Castro's economic reforms in Cuba</a> <i>Reuters</i> Apr 16, 2018</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">DeVore, Irven (1969). <i>Man the Hunter</i>. Aldine Transaction. ISBN 978-0-202-33032-7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Livia Gershon (October 26, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://daily.jstor.org/when-communes-dont-fail/">"When Communes Don't Fail"</a>. <i>JSTOR Daily</i>. Quote: "Communal living in the service of building a better world has a long history in the West. Metcalf writes that the first intentional community in recorded history was Homakoeion, created by Pythagoras in 525 BCE. The members tried to create an ideal society, though we don’t know much about what that meant to them other than that they gave up private property and meat, and were interested in numerology. Early Christians lived communally."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">R. B. Rose, Gracchus Babeuf: The First Revolutionary Communist (1978) (According to Wikipedia)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/05/parti-ouvrier.htm">The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier</a>. <i>Marxists.org</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/help/marxism.htm">Marxism</a>. <i>Marxists.org</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/communism/Communism-after-Marx#ref990780">Communism after Marx</a>. <i>Britannica.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm">Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League</a> Karl Marx. 1850. London.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.marxists.org/history/etol//revhist/otherdox/whatnext/po-prog.html">The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/61">The Communist Manifesto</a> at Project Gutenberg</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Whether <i>Das Kapital</i> be an economic treatise or the ravings of a nut is a hotly debated question.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29405089">Ukraine nationalists tear down Kharkiv's Lenin statue</a>. <i>BBC News</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/common_liberal.htm">The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky</a> "How Kautsky Turned Marx Into A Common Liberal"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism" class="extiw" title="wp:Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" rel="nofollow">Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-26">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Menshevik">Menshevik</a>. <i>Britannica.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-27">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://spartacus-educational.com/RUSassembly.htm">1917 Constituent Assembly in Russia</a>. <i>Spartacus Educational.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Quotes_about_Joseph_Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>. "Quotes about Joseph Stalin". <i>Wikiquote.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/mussolini.htm">Who's Who — Benito Mussolini</a> <i>Firstworldwar.com</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-30">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thelocal.de/20180115/99-years-since-rosa-luxemburg-was-murdered-and-dumped-in-a-berlin-canal">99 years since Rosa Luxemburg was murdered and dumped in a Berlin canal</a>. <i>The Local.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-31">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War" class="extiw" title="wp:Polish–Soviet War" rel="nofollow">Polish–Soviet War</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-stalini-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-stalini_32-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dailyhistory.org/How_Joseph_Stalin_became_the_leader_of_the_Soviet_Union">How Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union</a>. <i>Daily History.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-33">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_One_Country" class="extiw" title="wp:Socialism in One Country" rel="nofollow">Socialism in One Country</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-34">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trotskyism">Trotskyism</a>. <i>Britannica.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-35">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37025649">What is a Trotskyist?</a> <i>BBC News.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-36">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-04-10-1994100042-story.html">Lenin tilled soil for future purges</a>. <i>Baltimore Sun.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-37">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxist.com/spanish-revolution-betrayed.htm">The Spanish Revolution Betrayed</a>. <i>In Defense of Marxism.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-38">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power_grows_out_of_the_barrel_of_a_gun" class="extiw" title="wp:Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" rel="nofollow">Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-maoismi-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-maoismi_39-0">37.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-maoismi_39-1">37.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-maoismi_39-2">37.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Maoism">Maoism</a>. <i>Britannica.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-40">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Leap-Forward">Great Leap Forward</a>. <i>Britannica.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-41">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Dikötter, Frank (2010): <i>Mao's Great Famine</i>. 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