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Marxism–Leninism
Revolutionary branch of Marxism that advocates the seizure of power by a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, with a planned economy and collectivization, serving as the foundation …
Stalinist Socialism
Soviet model consolidated by Stalin, marked by forced industrialization, agrarian collectivization, rigid central planning, a cult of the leader, and mass repression against real or suspected opponent…
Maoist Communism
Mao's Chinese adaptation of Marxism, centered on the peasantry as the revolutionary force, protracted people's war, permanent mass mobilization, and cultural revolution against the party bureaucracy.
Trotskyist Communism
Current of Trotsky, co-founder of the Soviet state and the Red Army, which defends permanent revolution, a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, criticizing Stalinist bureaucracy wit…
National Communism
Current that combines a planned socialist economy with a strong national identity, prioritizing the sovereignty and interests of its own country over internationalism, often under personalist and cent…
Juche Socialism
North Korean doctrine formulated by Kim Il-sung that combines state socialism, national self-reliance, single-party rule, a cult of the leader, militarization, and rejection of external dependence, su…
Pol Pot Socialism
Radical agrarian communism of the Khmer Rouge that emptied cities, abolished money and markets, and pursued an egalitarian peasant society by force, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th c…
State Socialism
System in which the state controls the means of production and directs the economy through central planning, promoting industrialization and welfare under strong political authority and limited popula…
Authoritarian Progressivism
Project that imposes progressive social transformations from above, using state power to accelerate changes in customs and equality, even at the cost of individual liberties and organized political op…
Eco-Authoritarianism
Current that advocates a strong, interventionist state to confront the environmental crisis, subordinating economic and political freedoms to ecological urgency and strict control of consumption and p…
Christian Socialism
Current of Thomas Müntzer, the peasants of 1525 and guerrilla priests such as Camilo Torres, seeking the Kingdom of God on earth through revolution, with common property and the rule of the poor impos…
Techno-Socialism
Current that joins the dictatorship of the proletariat with technological accelerationism, defending a revolutionary party, data-driven planning, automation, and collective ownership to lead the trans…
Agrarian Communism
Revolutionary model that idealizes peasant life and collective rural production, rejecting cities, markets, and private property in favor of an equality imposed by state mobilization and communal disc…
Titoist Socialism
Variant of socialism developed in Tito's Yugoslavia, combining single-party rule and a cult of the leader with workers' self-management of enterprises, federal decentralization, market openness, and n…
Progressive Theocracy
Theocracy led by clerical authority without popular sovereignty, imposing a progressive morality from above as divine commandment: gender equality, sexual liberation, sacred ecology and a break with i…
Revolutionary Syndicalism
Current that rejects the parliamentary and reformist path, betting on the general strike and the mobilising myth: direct union action and proletarian violence should destroy the state and the decadent…
Marxist Socialism
Marx's original doctrine, analyzing history as class struggle and predicting capitalism's overcoming through proletarian revolution, with abolition of private ownership of the means of production and …
Communism
Final stage theorized by Marx and Engels: a classless, stateless society without private ownership of the means of production, with collective production and distribution according to need, supersedin…
Cuban Socialism
Revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, with a single party, a state-run economy, universal health and education, export of armed revolution and the new man ideal against imperialism.
African Socialism
Current of Sankara, Samora Machel, Nkrumah and Nyerere joining pan-Africanism, Black consciousness, anticolonial struggle, agrarian collectivization and self-reliance against neocolonialism and racism…
Agrarian Socialism
Current that builds socialism from the countryside, with a single party, collectivization into villages and cooperatives, food self-sufficiency and protection of land and forests, as in Nyerere's Ujam…
Federalist Socialism
Model of a federation of socialist republics under a vanguard party, as in Lenin's USSR, combining a planned economy and single-party rule with national autonomy, local languages and cultures, and fed…
Patriotic Socialism
Current that joins a state-run socialist economy and a strong party with patriotism, the traditional family, religion as national heritage and rejection of cultural progressivism, seeing identity poli…
Vietnamese Socialism
Model of the Communist Party of Vietnam uniting Ho Chi Minh Thought, anticolonial national liberation and the 1986 Đổi Mới: single-party rule, a socialist-oriented market economy, a dominant state sec…
Blanquist Socialism
Auguste Blanqui's doctrine that a conspiratorial revolutionary minority should seize power and rule through a provisional dictatorship that expropriates the bourgeoisie, with militant atheism and dist…
Council Communism
An anti-Leninist Marxist current of Pannekoek, Gorter and Mattick, which holds that workers themselves should run production and power through workers' councils, rejecting the vanguard party, the stat…
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