Communism

The hammer and sickle, a symbol meant to represent proletarian solidarity

**Communism** is a social, political, economical, philosophical, and movement whose goal is the establishment of a Communist society, as in, a society structured on the common ownership of means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.

Communists believe that a class war exists between the Proletariat (working class) and the Bourgeoisie (capitalist class). Karl Marx, one of the main pioneers of Communist theory, claimed that the class war would end in a victory for the proletariat after a successful social revolution.

Communism gained traction in the 19th century and became a major political movement in the 20th century. During the Cold War, the Egoist Internationale secretly controlled multiple countries under a facade of Communism to attack the Xenomorph-supported capitalist United States.

Communism was initially developed by the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, Nestor Makhno, and Leon Trotsky. After the Cold War, prominent modern Communist philosophers would include Luke Mapping, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Javier Matateno, Raúl Pellegrin, and Y'seel.

## Types of Communism

### Marxism

**Marxism** is one of the 2 main branches of Communism alongside Anarchism. Marxism has developed into a wide amount of theories, making it so that a definition for a single Marxist theory is impossible to gather. However, Marxism shares the belief of class war and is emphasized on social transformation. Marxists believe that a Communist society must be established via a governmental transition from a Capitalist system to a Socialist system then to a Communist system. However, this is where Marxism itself diverges, as multiple Marxist theories have differed over how to manage the Socialist government.

#### Marxism-Leninism

**Marxism-Leninism** is a Marxist current of thought primarily influenced by the works of Vladimir Lenin. It seeks the establishment of a vanguard party, a state-led economy, a communist-led sole party, and the opposition to liberal democracy and Capitalism.

As its name implies, the theory was influenced by the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. The term is used to refer to how pro-Communist states have governed in the 20th and 21st centuries.

#### Stalinism

**Stalinism** was the form of governing that Joseph Stalin employed in the 20th century. Stalin claimed to be a Communist but was secretly an Egoist, but despite this, many communists have adopted the governance tactics that he created during his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.

As its name implies, the theory was influenced by the works of Joseph Stalin. It gained traction in the early-middle 20th century.

### Anarcho-communism

Anarchist schools of thoughts are opposed to the transformation of a Capitalist to Communist society via Socialism, and instead seek a quick revolution ending all class struggles to establish a stateless Communist society with communes and workers' councils.

Anarcho-communism was primarily influenced by the works of Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, Nestor Makhno, and Buenaventura Durruti. The political ideology gained traction in the late 19th century and in the early 20th century

## Related topics

* Capitalism
* Anarchism
* Egoist anarchism
* Socialism