Marxism–Leninism
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Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement following the October Revolution. It was the predominant ideology of most communist governments in th
1936 Soviet poster with the slogan "Raise the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin!"
Leon Trotsky exhorting Red Army soldiers in the Polish–Soviet War
Enver Hoxha, who led the Sino-Albanian split in the 1970s and whose anti-revisionist followers led to the development of Hoxhaism
Military parade with communist symbolics in South Yemen
History of communism
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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. Most modern form
The 1st century BC Roman philosopher Seneca believed that humans had fallen from a Golden Age of primitive communism
Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis envisioned a utopian city where private property is abolished
Restif de la Bretonne used the term "communism" in 1793 to describe a society where all private property was eliminated
François-Noël Babeuf was a notable advocate for the abolition of private property during the French Revolution