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46 sectionsContents
- Etymology and terminology
- Communism and socialism
- Associated usage and Communist states
- History
- Early communism
- Revolutionary wave of 1917–1923
- Communist states
- Soviet Union
- China
- Cold War
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- Post-Soviet communism
- Theory
- Marxist communism
- Marxist concepts
- Class conflict and historical materialism
- Critique of political economy
- Marxian economics
- Socialization versus nationalization
- Democracy in Marxism
- Leninist communism
- Marxism–Leninism
- Stalinism
- Trotskyism
- Maoism
- Eurocommunism
- Libertarian Marxist communism
- Council communism
- Left communism
- Other types of communism
- Anarcho-communism
- Christian communism
- Analysis
- Achievements of the Soviet planned economies
- Economic problems of the Soviet planned economies
- Reception
- Excess mortality in Communist states
- Memory and legacy
- See also
- References
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Communism () is a political and economic ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need. A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state. Communism is a part of the broader socialist movement.
Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a libertarian socialist approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and an authoritarian socialist, vanguardist, or party-driven approach to establish a socialist state, which is expected to wither away. Communist parties have been described as radical left or far-left.