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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), in which they called for the political unification of the European working classes in order to achieve communist revolution; and proposed that because the socio-economic organisation of communism was of a higher form than that of capitalism, a ...
The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution, German Revolution of 1918–1919, and anarchist bombings in the U.S.
For one, the USSR had to justify the creation of Soviet-aligned governments to the existing, non-Communist, political parties within Eastern European countries. The theory of people's democracy allowed the USSR to assuage the concerns of such parties, as people's democracies were to be governed by a coalition of Anti-fascist parties. [5]
Empire was a major turning stone in 21st-century Marxist and communist thought. [45] Theoretical publications, some published by Verso Books, include The Idea of Communism, edited by Costas Douzinas and Žižek; [46] [19] Badiou's The Communist Hypothesis; and Bosteels's The Actuality of Communism.