Marxism–Leninism

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communist ideology political ideology revolutionary ideology state ideology

Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideological framework that synthesizes Karl Marx’s and Vladimir Lenin’s theories into a doctrine of one-party rule, state control of the economy, and revolutionary vanguard leadership, most prominently associated with the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	communist ideology → political ideology → revolutionary ideology → state ideology →
aimsAt	abolition of private ownership of the means of production →
associatedWith	Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Eastern Bloc → Joseph Stalin → Soviet Union → Warsaw Pact states →
basedOn	Leninism → Marxism →
codifiedIn	programs of communist parties →
developedFrom	Bolshevism → Leninist party theory → classical Marxism →
emphasizes	centralized political authority → democratic centralism in party organization → planned economy → role of the communist party as vanguard of the working class →
hasConcept	collectivization → democratic centralism → nationalization of industry → party discipline → planned economy →
hasCorePrinciple	central planning → class struggle → democratic centralism → dictatorship of the proletariat → one-party rule → proletarian internationalism → state ownership of the means of production → vanguard party →
hasGoal	establishment of socialism → transition to communism →
hasVariant	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism → Stalinism → anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism →
influenced	Hoxhaism → Juche → Maoism → various communist parties worldwide →
influencedBy	Friedrich Engels → Joseph Stalin → Karl Marx → Vladimir Lenin →
namedAfter	Karl Marx → Vladimir Lenin →
opposes	anarchism → capitalism → liberal democracy → social democracy →
region	global →
stateIdeologyOf	Czechoslovak Socialist Republic → Democratic People's Republic of Korea (in early formulations) → German Democratic Republic → Hungarian People's Republic → People's Republic of Bulgaria → People's Republic of China (early period) → People's Republic of Poland → People's Socialist Republic of Albania → Republic of Cuba → Socialist Republic of Romania → Soviet Union →
timePeriod	20th century →
viewsHistoryAs	history of class struggle →

Referenced by (308)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union → 1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union → 26th of July Movement → Alexander Svanidze → Alexei Kosygin → Andrei Vyshinsky → Andrei Zhdanov → Black Panther Party → Boris Shaposhnikov → Brazilian Communist Party ("Marxism-Leninism") → Brezhnev Doctrine → Brezhnev stagnation → Bulgarian Communist Party → Bulgarian Communist Party → Bulgarian State Security → CPC → Central Commission for Discipline Inspection → Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party → Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba → Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Che Guevara → Cheka → Chin Peng → Chinese Communist Party → Chinese Red Army → Chinese Revolution ("Marxism-Leninism") → Chinese Soviet Republic → Cominform → Comintern → Commission of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) → Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement → Communist Party USA ("Marxism-Leninism") → Communist Party of Canada → Communist Party of Cuba → Communist Party of France → Communist Party of Germany → Communist Party of Great Britain ("Marxism-Leninism") → Communist Party of Greece → Communist Party of India → Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path → Communist Party of Spain → Communist Party of Vietnam → Communist Party of Yugoslavia → Communist Party of the Russian Federation → Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic → Communist Youth League of Hungary → Constitution of the Soviet Union → Council for Mutual Economic Assistance → Cuban government → Cuban military interventions in Africa → Cultural Revolution → Czechoslovak Communist Party → Czechoslovak coup d’état of 1948 → Democratic Army of Greece → Democratic Army of Greece → Democratic Women’s League of Germany → Departamentul Securității Statului → Dimitrov Communist Youth Union → East German Stasi → Eastern Bloc security forces → Edward Gierek → Egon Krenz → Ethiopian Civil War → Ferenc Münnich → Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union → Free German Youth → GPU → General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party → General Union of Trade Unions → Gennady Yanayev → Georgi Dimitrov → Georgy Malenkov → Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej → Government of North Vietnam → Granma → Great National Assembly → Gulag system → He Shuheng → Ho Chi Minh → Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party → In Memory of Norman Bethune → Integrated Revolutionary Organizations → Italian Communist Party → Ivan Bakayev → Jiang Qing → Joseph Stalin → Joseph Stalin ("Stalinism") → Josip Broz Tito → János Kádár → KGB → KPRF ("Marxism-Leninism") → Khmer Rouge → Kim Il Sung → Kliment Voroshilov → Komsomol → Lao People’s Revolutionary Party → Li Lisan → Lin Biao → Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic → Little Red Book → Liu Shaoqi → Luigi Longo → MSZMP → MVD → Malayan Communist Party → Malayan National Liberation Army → Mao Zedong → Mao Zetan → Maxim Litvinov → Meir Vilner → Miguel Díaz-Canel → Mikhail Frunze → Mikhail Kalinin → Mikhail Suslov → Mikhail Tukhachevsky → Mohammad Najibullah → NKGB → NKVD → Nadezhda Krupskaya → National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party → National Council of Women (Romania) → National Front of the German Democratic Republic → Nationale Volksarmee → Nationale Volksarmee Landstreitkräfte → Nicaraguan Revolution → Nikita Khrushchev → Nikolai Bulganin → Nikolai Ogarkov → Nikolai Tikhonov → Nikolai Yezhov → Oleg Baklanov → On New Democracy → Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party → Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado → Party Congress → Party of Labour of Albania → Pavel Postyshev → People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan → Polish People’s Republic → Polish United Workers' Party → Polish United Workers' Party → Polish Workers' Party → Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party → Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party → Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam → Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Raúl Castro → Rebel Army → Red Army → Red Terror → Resort Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego → Romanian Communist Party → Romanian Communist Party → SED → Samora Machel → Sarawak Communist Insurgency → Saur Revolution → Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee → Selected Works of Mao Zedong → Sergei Kirov → Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region ("Marxism-Leninism") → Socialist Republic of Serbia → Socialist Unity Party of Germany → Society for German–Soviet Friendship → South African Communist Party → Soviet Border Troops → Soviet Civil Administration in Korea → Soviet Ground Forces → Soviet Internal Troops → Soviet Navy → Soviet Ukraine → Soviet Union → Soviet armed forces → Soviet government → Soviet military officers → Soviet system of orders, medals and titles → Stakhanovite movement → Stalin era → Stalin era ("Stalinism") → Stanislav Kosior → Teng Daiyuan → Third International ("Marxism-Leninism") → Todor Zhivkov → Truong Chinh → Union of Communist Youth → Union of Socialist Youth → United Front Work Department → United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution → VLKSM → Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan → Viet Cong → Viet Minh → Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization → Vyacheslav Molotov → Walter Ulbricht → Wilhelm Pieck → Władysław Gomułka → Young Communist League of Cuba → Young Pioneers → Yuri Andropov → Zhou Enlai → Zhu De → Zhu De →	ideology
1937 Soviet legislative election → Armando Hart Dávalos → Babrak Karmal → Boris Pugo → Carlos Rafael Rodríguez → Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR → Council of People's Commissars → Dolores Ibárruri → Elena Ceaușescu → Enver Hoxha → Fidel Castro → First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR → First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba → First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia → First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine → First Secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine → General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Huynh Tan Phat → Konstantin Chernenko → Károly Grósz → Le Duc Tho → Leonid Brezhnev → Li Weihan → Li Yunhe → Narkom natsionalnostei → Nicolae Ceaușescu → People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR → People's Commissar for Nationalities → Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party → William Z. Foster → Yusuf Dadoo ("Marxism-Leninism") → de-Stalinization →	politicalIdeology
Chen Yi → Communist Party of Spain ("Soviet communism") → Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ("Soviet communism") → Deng Xiaoping Theory → FDGB → Juche → Juche ("Stalinism") → Juche → Official republican movement → On Guerrilla Warfare → Soviet High Command → Soviet literature → Vietnamese nationalism →	influencedBy
Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Günter Schabowski → Otto Grotewohl → Pravda → Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba → Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee → Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan → Xiang Ying →	politicalAlignment
Chinese Marxism → Maoism → Marxism–Leninism ("Leninism") →	basedOn
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties ("Marxism-Leninism") → Soviet period →	hasIdeology
Great Soviet Encyclopedia ("Marxism-Leninism") → On Protracted War ("Marxism-Leninism") →	ideologicalOrientation
Central Committee → General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party →	ideologyContext
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung → Selected Works of Mao Zedong →	mainSubject
Erich Honecker → Mikhail Suslov →	movement
hammer and sickle →	associatedWith
Uncle Joe →	associatedWithIdeology
Juche →	claimsToModify
Leninism →	componentOf
Trotskyism ("Stalinist Marxism–Leninism") →	contrastsWith
Constitution of the People's Republic of China →	definesLeadingIdeology
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism →	developedFrom
Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder ("Marxism-Leninism") →	doctrinalBasis
Eastern Bloc →	dominantIdeology
de-Stalinization ("Stalinism") →	follows
People’s Liberation Army Publishing House →	followsIdeology
Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union →	governedByIdeology
Beria period of the NKVD →	governingIdeology
Anti-British National Liberation War →	hasCombatantIdeology
Cold War rhetoric →	hasIdeologicalBasis
Palestinian national movement →	hasIdeologicalCurrent
Eastern Bloc regimes →	hasPoliticalIdeology
Marxism–Leninism ("Marxism–Leninism–Maoism") →	hasVariant
Soviet–Hungarian relations →	ideologicalBasis
Industrial Academy in Moscow →	ideologicalContext
socialist realism →	ideologicallyBasedOn
Mao Zedong family →	ideologyAssociated
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba building →	ideologyAssociatedWithOccupant
Malayan Emergency →	ideologyOfInsurgents
Scînteia →	ideologyPromoted
Constitution of the Soviet Union of 1923 →	ideologyReflected
Leninism →	influenced
Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Soviet Union) →	linkedToIdeology
Cuba →	officialIdeology
Lenin Prize →	officialIdeologyContext
Mahaz-e Milli →	opposedIdeology
The State and Revolution →	philosophicalTradition
Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union →	politicalOrientation
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism →	recognizedAsHigherStageOf
communism →	relatedTo
Romanian Communist Party →	requiredIdeologicalEducation
East Germany →	stateIdeology
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism →	subject
Marxism →	subschool