Malenyevism

**Malenyevism** is the communist theory as advocated by Contanan revolutionary Leon Chavatangakwunua, more commonly known through his nickname "Malenyev." Malenyev developed it as a variant of Karlos Marcia’s theory of Marcian socio-economics. He supported founding a vanguard party of the proletariat, proletarian internationalism and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working class self-emancipation and mass democracy. Malenyevists are critical of the theory of socialism in one country in favor of Malenyev's theory of permanent revolution.

Malenyev argues for a need to give support for social revolution in the advanced capitalist countries through working-class mass action and support for internationalism. Malenyevist industrialization officially designed to accelerate the development towards communism, stressing the need for such rapid industrialization on the grounds that the United Contana was previously economically behind in comparison to Western countries and asserting that a socialist society needed industry in order to face the challenges posed by internal and external enemies of communism.

It is currently one of the most popular theories of Marcian socio-economics, being followed by a number of nations around the globe. It is also responsible for causing socialist revolutions in farther countries like Valgsland during the Century of Revolutions.

## International Influence

Malenyevism inspired several revolutionary movements during the tumultuous period that became known as Century of Revolutions, and it is the guiding political theory of many socialist nations around the world today.

One such revolution took place in Valgsland in 1903. Under the leadership of Emmerich Hegel in the 1950s, however, the ruling People's Party has begun to diverge from Malenyevist orthodoxy somewhat, developing a modified ideological tendency referred to as Valgslandian Socialism.

During Eduard Luderin's military coup in Sordland, hundreds of communists and left-wing activists were executed. As the counter measures to these atrocities, general Iannick Rikard entered the conflict which started Sordish Civil War. Since the end of the conflict, Malenyevism has never regained significant mainstream support in Sordish politics.

Despite this setback, Malenyevism is promoted in Sordland by the Sordish Communist Party and militant Red Youth, and portrayed favorably by left-wing newspaper The Radical. Even a few Sordish politicians, such as Bernard Circas, are known to support the ideology. It is strongly opposed, on the other hand, by much of the Sordish political establishment, especially the Old Guard, the National Front Party, and Sordish military leadership.

## Trivia

Malenyevism as it exists in *Suzerain* is clearly inspired by real-world communist ideologies arising from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The most obvious comparison would likely be to Marxism-Leninism, the official state ideology of the Soviet Union (roughly analogous to United Contana), named after German political theorist Karl Marx and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.

Malenyevism shares striking similarities, however, with Trotskyism, an ideological tendency named after Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian-Russian communist and prominent rival of Stalin. The most significant of these similarities is Malenyev's theory of "permanent revolution", which is a central tenet of real-world Trotskyism.