Kaysone Phomvihane
The LPRP is committed to communism and continues to participate in the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties, an annual international forum of communist parties. According to the party statute, the party adheres to Marxism–Leninism and Kaysone Phomvihane Thought. Upon taking power in 1975, the party sought to immediately abolish the capitalist mode of production and establish a socialist society. By the 1990s, the mood had changed, and the party believed that Laos was too underdeveloped to construct socialism. The party thus adopted state capitalism as a tool to build a socialist society.