Marxist-Leninist
Red revolution adherent
A Marxist-Leninist follows the political ideology combining Marx's theories of class struggle and capitalism's overthrow with Lenin's strategies for revolutionary organization—particularly the vanguard party leading the working class.
The term describes both adherents and the official doctrine of Soviet-style communist states: a Marxist-Leninist regime, Marxist-Leninist principles.
Often used interchangeably with communist, though the label carries specific Cold War associations.
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- mass mobilizationWidespread organized public activation
guerrilla warfare · armed struggle · counter-revolutionary · class enemy · liberation movement · October Revolution · peasant revolt · general strike
Conflict between economic groups
- dictatorship of the proletariatLaboring class governing authority
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
- anti-imperialismOpposition to foreign domination
- class consciousnessAwareness of economic group identity
Sole legal ruling faction
- central planningGovernment directs all production
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- central committeeExecutive governing body
cadre · agitprop · purge · show trial · propaganda · party discipline · secret police · gulags
Lenin's revolutionary communist ideology
- StalinismTotalitarian Communist doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- TrotskyismRevolutionary socialist theory opposing bureaucracy
- Khmer RougeCambodian communist movement
German socialist theorist
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- MaoChinese family name
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- Ho Chi MinhVietnamese nationalist leader
Kim Il-sung · Castro · Che Guevara · Gramsci · Luxembourg · Brezhnev · Khrushchev · Deng Xiaoping
proletariat
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
mass mobilization · guerrilla warfare · armed struggle · counter-revolutionary · class enemy · liberation movement · October Revolution · peasant revolt · general strike · seizure of power
class struggle
Conflict between economic groups
- dictatorship of the proletariatLaboring class governing authority
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
- anti-imperialismOpposition to foreign domination
class consciousness · self-criticism · party line · ideological purity
one-party state
Sole legal ruling faction
- central planningGovernment directs all production
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
central committee · cadre · agitprop · purge · show trial · propaganda · party discipline · secret police · gulags · reeducation
Bolshevism
Lenin's revolutionary communist ideology
- StalinismTotalitarian Communist doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- TrotskyismRevolutionary socialist theory opposing bureaucracy
Engels
German socialist theorist
Ho Chi Minh · Kim Il-sung · Castro · Che Guevara · Gramsci · Luxembourg · Brezhnev · Khrushchev · Deng Xiaoping · Pol Pot
- socialismcommunism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, communal ownership, collective ownership
- CommunistsEngels, Stalin, Mao, Trotsky, Bolshevik
Marxist-Leninistcapitalism
Private profit-based economy
laissez-faire · neoliberalism · libertarianism · free enterprise · market economy
Marxist-Leninistliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
democracy · liberalism · constitutional democracy · pluralism · parliamentarism
Marxist-Leninistsocial democracy
Reformed capitalism with welfare state
reformism · gradualism · democratic socialism · incrementalism · revisionism