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to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide getting around main page simple start simple talk new changes show any page help contact us about wikipedia special pages search search appearance give to wikipedia create account log in personal tools give to wikipedia create account log in contents move to sidebar hide beginning 1 history 2 disputes 3 term usage 4 symbols and culture 5 related pages 6 references 7 other websites toggle the table of contents communism 183 languages afrikaans alemannisch አማርኛ aragonés ænglisc अंगिका العربية الدارجة مصرى অসমীয়া asturianu अवधी azərbaycanca تۆرکجه башҡортса boarisch žemaitėška bikol central беларуская тарашкевіца беларуская български भोजपुरी বাংলা brezhoneg bosanski batak mandailing буряад català 閩東語 mìng dĕ̤ng ngṳ̄ нохчийн cebuano کوردی čeština cymraeg dansk deutsch zazaki ελληνικά emiliàn e rumagnòl english esperanto español eesti euskara estremeñu فارسی suomi võro føroyskt français nordfriisk furlan frysk gaeilge 贛語 kriyòl gwiyannen 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удмурт ئۇيغۇرچە uyghurche українська اردو oʻzbekcha ўзбекча vèneto vepsän kel tiếng việt volapük walon winaray 吴语 მარგალური ייִדיש yorùbá 文言 閩南語 bân lâm gí 粵語 中文 change links page talk english read change change source view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read change change source view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export make a book download as pdf page for printing in other projects abstract wikipedia wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from simple english wikipedia the free encyclopedia redirected from communist other pages about communism the hammer and sickle is a symbol of communism and plates of meats communism anti communism communism in azerbaijan communist parties communists marxism russian revolution communism anarcho communism anti revisionism antisemitism in east germany antisemitism in the soviet union blanquism brezhnev doctrine chervyen massacre collectivism collectivization the communist manifesto communist party usa communist state communization cpc politburo standing committee democratic centralism dictatorship of the proletariat eastern bloc farc fellow traveller genocides by the soviet union gift economy great purge hammer and sickle the internationale iron curtain juche katyn massacre left communism leninism magonism mao zedong thought maoism martial law in poland marxism leninism moral code of the builder of communism national bolshevism naxalism naxalite maoist insurgency nkvd prisoner massacres pathet lao people s republic pioneer movement polish genocide politburo popular front for the liberation of palestine primitive communism proletariat purity spiral al qaidah newspaper red army faction reunified fourth international rootless cosmopolitan communist russia russian civil war ryutin affair social liberal party brazil songun soviet deportation of greeks soviet deportation of koreans soviet deportation of poles during world war ii soviet deportations from bessarabia and northern bukovina soviet deportations of chechens and ingush soviet persecution of poles during world war ii trotskyism vanguard vanguardism viet cong war communism warsaw pact workers of the world unite communism is an idea in politics based on equality that seeks a world without different social class groups they say that things like factories tools and farms the relations of production are owned by the bourgeoisie communists want the workers to take power and the means of production 1 they believe this will bring about the end of all money and private property 2 this is the opposite to capitalism where there is money and a state and class structure in capitalism there is a working class people who don t own the means of production also called the proletariat and the owning class people who own the means of production sometimes called the ruling class or the bourgeoisie communist thinkers believe a communist world can happen if the working class take away the power of the bourgeoisie and start to control the means of production countries that claim themselves to be communist include vietnam china cuba and laos which are marxist leninist and north korea which follows juche the most famous communist thinkers were karl marx and friedrich engels other prominent thinkers include vladimir lenin joseph stalin leon trotsky and mao zedong history change change source karl marx the inventor of communism in 1848 karl h marx and friedrich engels wrote the communist manifesto it was a short book with the basic ideas of communism most socialists and communists today still use this book to help them better and more accurately understand politics and economics many non communists read it too even if they do not agree with everything in it karl marx said that for society to change into a communist way of living there would have to be a period of change during this period the workers would govern society this is called a dictatorship of the proletariat marx was very interested in the paris commune of 1870 when the workers of paris ran the city after the prussian army defeated the french army he thought that this practical experience was more important than the theoretical views of the various radical groups many groups and individuals liked marx s ideas by the beginning of the twentieth century there was a worldwide socialist movement called social democracy it was influenced by his ideas they said that the workers in different countries had more in common with each other than the workers had in common with the bosses within their own countries in 1917 vladimir lenin and leon trotsky led a russian group called the bolsheviks in the october revolution they got rid of the temporary government of russia which was formed after the february revolution against the tsar emperor they established the union of soviet socialist republics also called the soviet union friedrich engels the soviet union was the first country claiming to have established a workers state during the 20th century many people tried to establish workers states in the late 1940s china also had a revolution and created a new government with mao zedong as its leader in 1959 the island of cuba had a revolution and created a new government with fidel castro as its leader at one time there were many such countries and it seemed as though communism would overtake capitalism however communist party governments didn t use democracy because of this the governments became separated from the people making communism difficult this also led to disagreements and splits between countries world map of socialist and communist countries by the 1960s one third of the world had overthrown capitalism and were trying to build communism most of these countries followed the model of the soviet union some followed the model of china the other two thirds of the world still lived in capitalism and this led to a worldwide divide between capitalist countries and communist countries this was called the cold war because it was not fought with weapons or armies but competing ideas however this could have turned into a large war during the 1980s the united states and the soviet union were competing to have the biggest army and having the most dangerous weapons this was called the arms race president ronald reagan called the soviet union the evil empire because they had invaded the countries of eastern europe and forced them to have communist governments since 1989 when the berlin wall was torn down most countries that used to be communist have returned to capitalism communism now has much less influence around the world in 1991 the soviet union broke up however around a fifth of the world s people still live in states controlled by a communist party most of these people are in china the other countries include cuba vietnam laos and north korea there are also communist movements in latin america and south africa disputes change change source many people have written their own ideas about communism vladimir lenin of russia thought that there had to be a group of hard working revolutionaries called a vanguard to lead a socialist revolution worldwide and create a communist society everywhere forming leninism leon trotsky also from russia argued that socialism had to be international and it was not important to make it happen first in russia forming trotskyism he also did not like joseph stalin who became the leader of the ussr after lenin s death in 1924 trotsky was made to leave the soviet union by stalin in 1928 and then killed in 1940 this scared many people and lots of communists argued about whether this was right and whose ideas should be followed mao zedong of china thought that other classes would be important to the revolution in china and other developing countries because the working classes in these countries were small mao s ideas on communism are usually called maoism or mao zedong thought after stalin s death in 1953 mao saw himself as the leader of worldwide communism until he died in 1976 today the chinese government is still ruled by the communist party but they actually have what is called a mixed economy they have borrowed many things from capitalism the government in china today does not follow maoism some revolutionaries in other countries like india and nepal still like his ideas and are trying to use them in their own countries term usage change change source the word communism is not a very specific description of left wing political organizations many political parties calling themselves communist may actually be more reformist supportive of reforms and slow change instead of revolution than some parties calling themselves socialists many communist parties in latin america have lost many members because these parties do different things than what they promised once they get into power in chile between 1970 and 1973 under the left wing coalition groups of parties of popular unity led by salvador allende the communist party of chile was to the right of the socialist party of chile this means it was more reformist than the socialist party many communist parties will use a reformist strategy they say working class people are not organized enough to make big changes to their societies they put forward candidates that will be elected democratically once communists become elected to parliament or the senate then they will fight for the working class this will allow working class people to change their capitalist society into a socialist one symbols and culture change change source communist newspaper in haiti from the 1940s with hammer and sickle the color red is a symbol of communism around the world a red five pointed star sometimes also stands for communism the hammer and sickle is a well known symbol of communism it was on the flags of many communist countries like the soviet union see top of article some communists also like to use pictures of famous communists from history such as marx lenin and mao zedong as symbols of the whole philosophy of communism a song called the internationale is the international song of communism it has the same music everywhere but the words to the song are translated into many languages the russian version was the national anthem of the soviet union from 1922 until 1944 the sickle in the soviet union s flag shows the struggle of the peasants farmers the hammer in the flag represents the struggle for the workers both of them crossing shows their support for each other there is also a special kind of art and architecture found in many communist and former communist countries paintings done in the style of socialist realism are often done for propaganda to show a perfect version of a country s people and political leader art done in the socialist realism style such as plays movies novels and paintings show hard working happy and well fed factory workers and farmers movies plays and novels in this style often tell stories about workers or soldiers who sacrifice themselves for the good of their country paintings often showed heroic portraits of the leader or landscapes showing huge fields of wheat stalinist architecture was supposed to represent the power and glory of the state and its political leader some communists also enjoy this kind of art related pages change change source socialism anti capitalism stalinism karl marx marxism trotskyism capitalism leninism maoism castroism juche national bolshevism references change change source the abc of communism nikoli bukharin 1920 section 20 principles of communism frederick engels 1847 section 18 finally when all capital all production all exchange have been brought together in the hands of the nation private property will disappear of its own accord money will become superfluous and production will so expand and man so change that society will be able to slough off whatever of its old economic habits may remain other websites change change source the simple english wiktionary has a definition for communism communism encyclopædia britannica 11th ed 1911 v t e political spectrum radical politics triangulation politics revolutionary far left left centre left centre centre right right far right reactionary political positions post leftism ultra leftism anti stalinist left new left centrist marxism third way radical centrism new right political ideologies anarchism marxism communism socialism social democracy liberalism christian democracy conservatism nationalism fascism nazism religious politics christian right hindutva islamism religious zionism buddhist socialism christian left jewish left muslim left islamic conservatism islam and democracy models horseshoe theory left right politics nolan chart overton window open closed political spectrum the political compass pournelle chart right wing authoritarianism political pejoratives social justice warrior left 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