Marxist regime
Socialist state apparatus
A Marxist regime is a government organized around the political and economic theories of Karl Marx—typically featuring state ownership of production, single-party communist rule, and official ideology emphasizing class struggle.
The term often carries critical connotations, used by opponents to characterize governments in Cuba, the Soviet Union, or similar states: The Marxist regime collapsed after decades of economic stagnation.
- communismCollective ownership system
- planned economyCentralized resource allocation system
- state controlGovernment-managed economy or society
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- People's Republic of ChinaEast Asian communist state
socialism · collective ownership · means of production · one-party state · secret police · Leninism · classless society · nationalization · Maoism · proletarian revolution · class struggle · surplus value · political repression · workers' councils · commodity fetishism · cult of personality · party line · praxis
Marxist regimeliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
parliamentary democracy · constitutional democracy · constitutional republic · democratic republic · democratic government