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Prominent left communist groups existing today include the International Communist Current and the Internationalist Communist Tendency. [233] Specific currents that can be labelled part of left communism include Bordigism, Luxemburgism, and Communization. [234]
The following communist states were socialist states committed to communism. Some were short-lived and preceded the widespread adoption of Marxism–Leninism by most communist states. Russia. Chita Republic (1905–1906) Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991) Amur Socialist Soviet Republic (1918)
Examples of previous direct communist or socialist party rule in non-socialist multi-party democracies include: Republic of San Marino (Sammarinese Communist Party, 1945–1957, 1978–1990) Indonesia (Socialist Party, 1945–1948) Union of Burma (Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, 1948–1962)
[3] [4] During the later part of the 20th century, before the Revolutions of 1989, around one-third of the world's population lived in communist states. [5] Communist states are typically authoritarian and are typically administered through democratic centralism by a single centralised communist party apparatus.
The hammer and sickle is a common theme of communist symbolism. This is an example of a hammer and sickle and red star design from the flag of the Soviet Union. In the United States, communism is widely used as a pejorative term as part of a Red Scare, much like socialism, and mainly in reference to authoritarian socialism and Communist states.
Many other communist parties did not govern any country, but did govern a state or region within a country. Others have also been represented in national, state, or regional parliaments. Some communist parties and schools of thought reject parliamentarism, instead advocating insurrection or social revolution as well as workers' councils.
A document from the collection of Henri Max Corwin, equating Joseph Stalin with Adolf Hitler. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Soviet Union during the period of Joseph Stalin's rule, along with Nazi Germany, was a "modern example" of a totalitarian state, being among "the first examples of decentralized or popular totalitarianism, in which the state achieved overwhelming popular ...
A communist revolution is a proletarian revolution inspired by the ideas of Marxism that aims to replace capitalism with communism. [1] Depending on the type of government, the term socialism can be used to indicate an intermediate stage between capitalism and communism and may be the goal of the revolution, especially in Marxist–Leninist ...