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  2. Red Scare - Wikipedia

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    Examining the political controversies of the 1940s and 1950s, historian John Earl Haynes, who studied the Venona decryptions extensively, argued that Joseph McCarthy's attempts to "make anti-communism a partisan weapon" actually "threatened [the post-War] anti-Communist consensus", thereby ultimately harming anti-communist efforts more than ...

  3. McCarthyism - Wikipedia

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    McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s. [1]

  4. List of communist ideologies - Wikipedia

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    Communist ideologies notable enough in the history of communism include philosophical, social, political and economic ideologies and movements whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, [4] a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, [5 ...

  5. History of communism - Wikipedia

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    The history of communism encompasses a wide variety of ideologies and political movements sharing the core principles of common ownership of wealth, economic enterprise, and property. [1] Most modern forms of communism are grounded at least nominally in Marxism, a theory and method conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during the 19th ...

  6. Pink tide - Wikipedia

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    The term seems to be a play on words based on red tide—a biological phenomenon of an algal bloom rather than a political one—with red, a color long associated with communism, especially as part of the Red Scare and red-baiting in the United States, being replaced with the lighter tone of pink to indicate the more moderate socialist ideas ...

  7. History of socialism - Wikipedia

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    Marxism comprised a theory of history (historical materialism), a critique of political economy, as well as a political, and philosophical theory. In the Manifesto of the Communist Party , written in 1848 just days before the outbreak of the revolutions of 1848, Marx and Engels wrote, "The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the ...

  8. Communism - Wikipedia

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    Anarcho-communism is a libertarian theory of anarchism and communism which advocates the abolition of the state, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production; [285] [286] direct democracy; and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on ...

  9. 21st-century communist theorists - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, many advocates for and theorists of communism in the 21st century contributed to the three-day conference, "The Idea of Communism", in London that drew a substantial paying audience. [3] Journals such as Endnotes , Salvage, Ebb Magazine [ 4 ] Kites [ 5 ] and Historical Materialism launched with communist outlooks, as well as news ...