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|Name = {{i|Commie}} Communism {{i|Commie}}
|Name= {{i|Commie}} Communism {{i|Commie}}
|NativeName = {{ILSize|German-icon.png|German Language}}: Kommunismus
|NativeName= {{ILSize|German-icon.png|German Language}}: Kommunismus
|founded = 1848
|founded= 1848
|predicon = Jacobinism
|predicon= Jacobinism
|onlypredecessor = Jacobinism
|onlypredecessor= Jacobinism
|ended =  
|ended=  
|nexticon = ModernLeft
|nexticon= ModernLeft
|onlysuccessor = Western New Left
|onlysuccessor= Western New Left
|image = Communism.png
|image= Communism.png
|Caption =
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|Alias = {{SB}}{{i|Communism}} Commie<br>The Reds<br>Specter of Communism<br>The Red Serpent<br>Hammer and Sickle<br>{{i|Marxism}} [[Marxism]]<br>Theory of {{i|Atheism}} [[Atheism]] plus the philosophy of struggle<br>{{Alias|Capitalism-icon.png|Capitalism|No food-ism}}
|Alias= {{Scroll|{{i|Communism}} Commie<br>The Reds<br>Specter of Communism<br>The Red Serpent<br>Hammer and Sickle<br>{{i|Marxism}} [[Marxism]]<br>Theory of {{i|Atheism}} [[Atheism]] plus the philosophy of struggle<br>{{Alias|Capitalism-icon.png|Capitalism|No food-ism}}}}
|Alignments = {{Info/CultLeft}}<br>{{Info/LeftUnity}}<br>{{Info/Commie}}<br>{{Info/Globe}}
|Alignments= {{Info/CultLeft}}<br>{{Info/LeftUnity}}<br>{{Info/Commie}}<br>{{Info/Globe}}
|Place of Origin = {{i|German Empire}} [[North German Confederation]]
|Origin= {{i|German Empire}} [[North German Confederation]]
|Influenced By = {{SB}}{{i|Absolute Equality}} [[Absolute Equality]]<br>{{i|AnTot}} [[Anarcho-Totalitarianism]]<br>{{i|AntiCap}} [[Anti-Capitalism]]<br>{{i|AntiCiv}} [[Anti-Civilization]] (debatably)<br>{{i|AntiCon}} [[Anti-Conservatism]]<br>{{i|AntiFeud}} [[Anti-Feudalism]]<br>{{i|AntiHuman}} [[Anti-Humanism]]<br>{{i|AntiImp}} [[Anti-Imperialism]] (self-proclaimed)<br>{{i|AntiLiberal}} [[Anti-Liberalism]]<br>{{i|AntiNat}} [[Anti-Nationalism]]<br>{{i|AntiTheism}} [[Anti-Theism]]<br>{{i|AntiTrad}} [[Anti-Traditionalism]]<br>{{i|Atheism}} [[Atheism]]<br>{{i|Babouvism}} [[Babouvism]]<br>{{i|Darwinism}} [[Darwinism]]<br>{{i|Ergatocracy}} [[Ergatocracy]]<br>{{i|Enlightenment}} [[Enlightenment|Enlightenment Thought]]<br>{{i|Fourierism}} [[Fourierism]]<br>{{i|Humanism}} [[Humanism]] (self-proclaimed)<br>{{I|Immoralism}} [[Immoralism]]<br>{{i|Industrialism}} [[Industrialism]]<br>{{i|Proletariat Internationalism}} [[Proletariat Internationalism|Internationalism]]<br>{{i|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought]]<br>{{i|LeftAcc}} [[Left-Accelerationism]]<br>{{i|Materialism}} [[Materialism]]<br>{{i|RevProg}} [[Revolutionary Progressivism]]<br>{{i|RevSoc}} [[Revolutionary Socialism]]<br>{{i|Stirnerism}} [[Stirnerism]]<br>{{i|Young Hegelianism}} [[Young Hegelianism]]
|Influenced By= {{Scroll|{{i|Absolute Equality}} [[Absolute Equality]]<br>{{i|AnTot}} [[Anarcho-Totalitarianism]]<br>{{i|AntiCap}} [[Anti-Capitalism]]<br>{{i|AntiCiv}} [[Anti-Civilization]] (debatably)<br>{{i|AntiCon}} [[Anti-Conservatism]]<br>{{i|AntiFeud}} [[Anti-Feudalism]]<br>{{i|AntiHuman}} [[Anti-Humanism]]<br>{{i|AntiImp}} [[Anti-Imperialism]] (self-proclaimed)<br>{{i|AntiLiberal}} [[Anti-Liberalism]]<br>{{i|AntiNat}} [[Anti-Nationalism]]<br>{{i|AntiTheism}} [[Anti-Theism]]<br>{{i|AntiTrad}} [[Anti-Traditionalism]]<br>{{i|Atheism}} [[Atheism]]<br>{{i|Babouvism}} [[Babouvism]]<br>{{i|Darwinism}} [[Darwinism]]<br>{{i|Ergatocracy}} [[Ergatocracy]]<br>{{i|Enlightenment}} [[Enlightenment|Enlightenment Thought]]<br>{{i|Fourierism}} [[Fourierism]]<br>{{i|Humanism}} [[Humanism]] (self-proclaimed)<br>{{I|Immoralism}} [[Immoralism]]<br>{{i|Industrialism}} [[Industrialism]]<br>{{i|Proletariat Internationalism}} [[Proletariat Internationalism|Internationalism]]<br>{{i|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought]]<br>{{i|LeftAcc}} [[Left-Accelerationism]]<br>{{i|Materialism}} [[Materialism]]<br>{{i|RevProg}} [[Revolutionary Progressivism]]<br>{{i|RevSoc}} [[Revolutionary Socialism]]<br>{{i|Stirnerism}} [[Stirnerism]]<br>{{i|Young Hegelianism}} [[Young Hegelianism]]}}
|Influenced = {{SB}}{{i|AnCom}} [[Anarco-Communism]]<br>{{i|De Leonism}} [[De Leonism]]<br>{{i|Eurocom}} [[Eurocommunism]]<br>{{i|Frankfurt School}} [[Frankfurt School]]<br>{{i|ItalianLeftCommie}} [[Italian Left Communism]]<br>{{I|Juche}} [[Juche]]<br>{{i|Leninism}} [[Leninism]]<br>{{i|MarxLenin}} [[Marxism-Leninism]]<br>{{i|MarxFem}} [[Marxist Feminism]]<br>{{i|Maoism}} [[Maoism]]<br>{{i|NatCom}} [[National Communism]]<br>{{i|NeoMarx}} [[Neo-Marxism]]<br>{{i|Socialism}} [[Socialism]]<br>{{i|Trotskyism}} [[Trotskyism]]<br>{{i|ModernLeft}} [[Western New Left]]
|Influenced= {{Scroll|{{i|AnCom}} [[Anarco-Communism]]<br>{{i|De Leonism}} [[De Leonism]]<br>{{i|Eurocom}} [[Eurocommunism]]<br>{{i|Frankfurt School}} [[Frankfurt School]]<br>{{i|ItalianLeftCommie}} [[Italian Left Communism]]<br>{{I|Juche}} [[Juche]]<br>{{i|Leninism}} [[Leninism]]<br>{{i|MarxLenin}} [[Marxism-Leninism]]<br>{{i|MarxFem}} [[Marxist Feminism]]<br>{{i|Maoism}} [[Maoism]]<br>{{i|NatCom}} [[National Communism]]<br>{{i|NeoMarx}} [[Neo-Marxism]]<br>{{i|Socialism}} [[Socialism]]<br>{{i|Trotskyism}} [[Trotskyism]]<br>{{i|ModernLeft}} [[Western New Left]]}}
|Notable People =  
|People=  
*{{i|Eurocom}} '''Western Europe''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*{{i|Eurocom}} '''Western Europe''' {{Collapse|
**{{i|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]] (1818-1883)
**{{i|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]] (1818-1883)
**{{i|Engels}} [[Engelsism|Friedrich Engels]] (1820-1895)
**{{i|Engels}} [[Engelsism|Friedrich Engels]] (1820-1895)
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**{{I|Bernstein}} [[Bernsteinism|Eduard Bernstein]] (1850-1932)
**{{I|Bernstein}} [[Bernsteinism|Eduard Bernstein]] (1850-1932)
**{{i|Gramsci}} [[Gramscianism|Antonio Gramsci]] (1891-1937)
**{{i|Gramsci}} [[Gramscianism|Antonio Gramsci]] (1891-1937)
</div>
}}
*{{i|Warsaw Pact}} '''Eastern Europe/Post-Soviet States''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*{{i|Warsaw Pact}} '''Eastern Europe/Post-Soviet States''' {{Collapse|
**{{i|Lenin}} [[Vladimir Lenin Thought|Vladimir Lenin]] (1870-1924)
**{{i|Lenin}} [[Vladimir Lenin Thought|Vladimir Lenin]] (1870-1924)
**{{i|Stalin}} [[Stalinism|Joseph Stalin]] (1878-1953)
**{{i|Stalin}} [[Stalinism|Joseph Stalin]] (1878-1953)
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**{{I|Bukharin}} [[Bukharinism|Nikolai Bukharin]] (1888-1938)
**{{I|Bukharin}} [[Bukharinism|Nikolai Bukharin]] (1888-1938)
**{{i|Sablin}} [[Sablinism|Valery Sablin]] (1939-1976)
**{{i|Sablin}} [[Sablinism|Valery Sablin]] (1939-1976)
</div>
}}
*{{I|Maoism}} '''Asia''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*{{I|Maoism}} '''Asia''' {{Collapse|
**{{i|ChenDuxiu}} [[Chen Duxiu Thought|Chen Duxiu]] (1879-1942)
**{{i|ChenDuxiu}} [[Chen Duxiu Thought|Chen Duxiu]] (1879-1942)
**{{i|HoChiMinh}} [[Hồ Chí Minh Thought|Hồ Chí Minh]] (1890-1969)
**{{i|HoChiMinh}} [[Hồ Chí Minh Thought|Hồ Chí Minh]] (1890-1969)
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**{{i|Kim Jong Il}} [[Kimjongilism|Kim Jong-Il]] (1941/2-2011)
**{{i|Kim Jong Il}} [[Kimjongilism|Kim Jong-Il]] (1941/2-2011)
**{{i|Kim Jong Un}} [[Kimjongunism|Kim Jong-Un]] (1982/3/4-)
**{{i|Kim Jong Un}} [[Kimjongunism|Kim Jong-Un]] (1982/3/4-)
</div>
}}
*{{I|ArabSoc}} '''Middle East''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*{{I|ArabSoc}} '''Middle East''' {{Collapse|
**{{i|MaoismTW}} [[Maoism-Third Worldism|Samir Amin]] (1931-2018)
**{{i|MaoismTW}} [[Maoism-Third Worldism|Samir Amin]] (1931-2018)
</div>
}}
*{{I|AfrSoc}} '''Africa''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*{{I|AfrSoc}} '''Africa''' {{Collapse|
**{{i|Kabilaism}} [[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]] (1939-2001)
**{{i|Kabilaism}} [[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]] (1939-2001)
</div>
}}
*{{I|Shining Path}} '''Americas''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*{{I|Shining Path}} '''Americas''' {{Collapse|
**{{i|De Leon}} [[De Leonism|Daniel De Leon]] (1852-1914)
**{{i|De Leon}} [[De Leonism|Daniel De Leon]] (1852-1914)
**{{i|MarxLenin}} [[Marxism-Leninism|William Z. Foster]] (1881-1961)
**{{i|MarxLenin}} [[Marxism-Leninism|William Z. Foster]] (1881-1961)
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**{{i|Shining Path}} [[Shining Path|Abimael Guzmán]] (1934-2021)
**{{i|Shining Path}} [[Shining Path|Abimael Guzmán]] (1934-2021)
**{{i|Oswald}} [[Oswaldism|Lee Harvey Oswald]] (1939-1963)
**{{i|Oswald}} [[Oswaldism|Lee Harvey Oswald]] (1939-1963)
</div>
}}
|Notable Examples =  
|Examples=  
*{{i|Earth}} '''Current:''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*{{i|Earth}} '''Current:''' {{Collapse|
**{{i|UN}} '''Countries''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
**{{i|NKorea}} [[North Korea|Democratic People's Republic of Korea]] (1948-)
***{{i|NKorea}} [[North Korea|Democratic People's Republic of Korea]] (1948-)
**{{i|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China]] (1949-)
***{{i|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China]] (1949-)
**{{i|CommieCuba}} [[Communist Cuba]] (1959-)
***{{i|CommieCuba}} [[Communist Cuba]] (1959-)
**{{i|Laos}} [[Lao People's Democratic Republic]] (1975-)
***{{i|Laos}} [[Lao People's Democratic Republic]] (1975-)
**{{i|Vietnam}} [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam]] (1976-)
***{{i|Vietnam}} [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam]] (1976-)
**{{i|Wa State}} [[Wa State]] (1989-)
***{{i|Wa State}} [[Wa State]] (1989-)
}}
**{{i|Politics}} '''Parties''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*{{i|Necrocracy}} '''Historical:''' {{Collapse|
***{{i|CCP}} [[Chinese Communist Party]] (1921-)
**{{i|ParisCom}} [[Paris Commune]] (1871)
***{{i|WPK}} [[Workers' Party of Korea]] (1949-)
**{{i|USSR2}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] (1922-1991)
***{{i|PCC}} [[Communist Party of Cuba]] (1965-)
**{{i|MongolPR}} [[Mongolian People's Republic]] (1924-1992)
***{{i|Shining Path}} [[Shining Path]] (1969-)
**{{i|Chinese Soviet Republic}} [[Chinese Soviet Republic]] (1931-1937)
*{{i|Necrocracy}} '''Historical:''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
**{{i|SCA}} [[Soviet Civil Administration]] (1945-1948)
**{{i|League of Nations}} '''Countries''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
**{{i|North Vietnam}} [[North Vietnam]] (1945-1976)
***{{i|ParisCom}} [[Paris Commune]] (1871)
**{{i|CommieYugo}} [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (1945-1992)
***{{i|USSR2}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] (1922-1991)
**{{i|PRBulgaria}} [[People's Republic of Bulgaria]] (1946-1990)
***{{i|MongolPR}} [[Mongolian People's Republic]] (1924-1992)
**{{i|PSRAlbania}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] (1946-1992)
***{{i|Chinese Soviet Republic}} [[Chinese Soviet Republic]] (1931-1937)
**{{i|PRPoland}} [[Polish People's Republic]] (1947-1989)
***{{i|SCA}} [[Soviet Civil Administration]] (1945-1948)
**{{i|CzechoslovakiaCommie}} [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]] (1948-1990)
***{{i|North Vietnam}} [[North Vietnam]] (1945-1976)
**{{i|East Germany}} [[East Germany]] (1949-1990)
***{{i|CommieYugo}} [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (1945-1992)
**{{I|PRCongo}} [[People's Republic of the Congo]] (1969-1992)
***{{i|PRBulgaria}} [[People's Republic of Bulgaria]] (1946-1990)
**{{i|Khmer Rouge}} [[Democratic Kampuchea]] (1975-1979)
***{{i|PSRAlbania}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] (1946-1992)
**{{I|PRBenin}} [[People's Republic of Benin]] (1975-1990)
***{{i|PRPoland}} [[Polish People's Republic]] (1947-1989)
**{{i|PRMozambique}} [[People's Republic of Mozambique]] (1975-1990)
***{{i|CzechoslovakiaCommie}} [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]] (1948-1990)
**{{i|DRAfghan}} [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan]] (1978-1992)
***{{i|East Germany}} [[East Germany]] (1949-1990)
**{{I|PDRE}} [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia]] (1987-1991)
***{{I|PRCongo}} [[People's Republic of the Congo]] (1969-1992)
**{{i|Nepal}} [[Nepal|Republic of Nepal]] (2008-2013, 2015-2017, 2018-2021, 2022-2025)
***{{i|Khmer Rouge}} [[Democratic Kampuchea]] (1975-1979)
}}
***{{I|PRBenin}} [[People's Republic of Benin]] (1975-1990)
*{{i|Politics}} '''Parties/Organizations''' {{Collapse|
***{{i|PRMozambique}} [[People's Republic of Mozambique]] (1975-1990)
**{{i|Commie}} [[International Workingmen's Association]] (1864-1876)
***{{i|DRAfghan}} [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan]] (1978-1992)
**{{i|Commie}} [[Second International]] (1889-1916)
***{{I|PDRE}} [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia]] (1987-1991)
**{{i|CPSU}} [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1912-1991)
***{{i|Nepal}} [[Nepal|Republic of Nepal]] (2008-2013, 2015-2017, 2018-2021, 2022-2025)
**{{i|PKI}} [[Communist Party of Indonesia]] (1914-1966)
**{{i|Politics}} '''Parties''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
**{{i|Comintern}} [[Comintern]] (1919-1943)
***{{i|CPSU}} [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1912-1991)
**{{i|CCP}} [[Chinese Communist Party]] (1921-)
***{{i|PKI}} [[Communist Party of Indonesia]] (1914-1966)
**{{i|WPK}} [[Workers' Party of Korea]] (1949-)
***{{I|M-26-7}} [[26th of July Movement]] (1955-1962)
**{{I|M-26-7}} [[26th of July Movement]] (1955-1962)
**{{i|Companyball}} '''Organizations''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
**{{I|Warsaw Pact}} [[Warsaw Pact]] (1955-1991)
***{{i|Commie}} [[International Workingmen's Association]] (1864-1876)
**{{i|PCC}} [[Communist Party of Cuba]] (1965-)
***{{i|Commie}} [[Second International]] (1889-1916)
**{{i|Shining Path}} [[Shining Path]] (1969-)
***{{i|Comintern}} [[Comintern]] (1919-1943)
**{{i|Antifa}} [[Antifa]] (c. 2016-)
***{{I|Warsaw Pact}} [[Warsaw Pact]] (1955-1991)
}}
*{{i|Ismism}} '''Fictional:''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*{{i|Ismism}} '''Fictional:''' {{Collapse|
**{{i|NeoBol}} [[Neo-Bolshevism|Eurasia]] (19??-, ''1984'')
**{{i|NeoBol}} [[Neo-Bolshevism|Eurasia]] (19??-, ''1984'')
**{{i|Fem}} [[Feminism|Athens ran entirely by women]] (391 BC-?, ''Assemblywomen'')
**{{i|Fem}} [[Feminism|Athens ran entirely by women]] (391 BC-?, ''Assemblywomen'')
|Likes = Violence and destruction<br>Class struggle<br>Degenearcy<br>Smashing the old world<br>Brainwashing college students
}}
|Dislikes = {{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism]] <s>and anyone who has life better than him</s><br>{{i|Propertarianism}} [[Propertarianism|Private property]]<br>The {{I|NucFam}} [[Nuclear Family Model|Family]]<br>The {{i|0ball}} [[Divine Beings|divine/supernatural]]<br>{{i|Religion}} [[Religion|Religions]]<br>{{i|Tradition}} [[Traditionalism|Tradition]]
|Likes= Violence and destruction<br>Class struggle<br>Degenearcy<br>Smashing the old world<br>Brainwashing college students
|Preceded = {{I|Jacobinism}} [[Jacobinism]]
|Dislikes= {{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism]] <s>and anyone who has life better than him</s><br>{{i|Propertarianism}} [[Propertarianism|Private property]]<br>The {{I|NucFam}} [[Nuclear Family Model|Family]]<br>The {{i|0ball}} [[Divine Beings|divine/supernatural]]<br>{{i|Religion}} [[Religion|Religions]]<br>{{i|Tradition}} [[Traditionalism|Tradition]]
|Succeeded =  
|Preceded= {{I|Jacobinism}} [[Jacobinism]]
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|Succeeded=  
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|Food=
}}{{Quote|Communism is neither a trend of thought, nor a doctrine, nor a failed attempt at a new way of ordering human affairs. Instead, it should be understood as a devil — an evil specter forged by hate, degeneracy, and other elemental forces in the universe.|{{i|AntiCommie}} [[Anti-Communism|How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World]]}}'''Communism''' is a {{i|RevProg}} [[Revolutionary Progressivism|far-left]] sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology. It is vile and {{I|Immoralism}} [[Immoralism|evil]], promoting degeneracy and hatred everywhere it touches, through {{I|Aggression}} [[Aggressionism|violence]] or masked {{I|Pacifism}} [[Pacifism|nonviolence]]. On the surface, it advocates for a classless society absent of currency, {{i|Propertarianism}} [[Propertarianism|private property]], and the {{I|NucFam}} [[Nuclear Family Model|traditional family]], and aims to achieve this goal through class struggle, for a so-called "{{I|Utopianism}} [[Utopianism|heaven on earth]]". It openly expresses distain for the {{I|0ball}} [[Holy Beings|divine]] and seeks to destroy {{I|Humanism}} [[Humanism|man]], both spiritually and physically through a variety of methods.
*<s>🍽️ Nothing</s>
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}}{{Quote|Communism is neither a trend of thought, nor a doctrine, nor a failed attempt at a new way of ordering human affairs. Instead, it should be understood as a devil — an evil specter forged by hate, degeneracy, and other elemental forces in the universe.|{{i|AntiCommie}} [[Anti-Communism|How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World]]}}'''Communism''' is a {{i|RevProg}} [[Revolutionary Progressivism|far-left]] sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology. It is vile and {{I|Immoralism}} [[Immoralism|evil]], promoting degeneracy and hatred everywhere it touches, through {{I|Aggression}} [[Aggressionism|violence]] or masked {{I|Pacifism}} [[Pacifism|nonviolence]]. On the surface, it advocates for a classless society absent of currency, {{i|Propertarianism}} [[Propertarianism|private property]], and the {{I|NucFam}} [[Nuclear Family Model|traditional family]], and aims to achieve this goal through class struggle, for a so-called "{{I|Utopianism}} [[Utopianism|heaven on earth]]". It openly expresses distain for the {{I|0ball}} [[Holy Beings|divine]] and seeks to destroy {{I|HomoSapiens}} [[Humankind|man]], both spiritually and physically through a variety of methods.


Communism breeds {{i|War}} [[war]], famine, {{i|Genocide}} [[Genocide|slaughter]], and {{i|Tyranny}} [[tyranny]] (especially on his own people), which in themselves are terrifying enough. But, the damage dealt by communism goes far beyond this. It has become increasingly clear that, unlike any other system in history, communism declares war on humanity itself — including human values and human dignity. Communism turns the world into its church, bringing all aspects of social life under its purview. It occupies people's thoughts, causing them to revolt against the divine and discard tradition. It is the biggest and main perpetrator of normalizing degeneracy. This is how the devil leads man to his own destruction.
Communism breeds {{i|War}} [[war]], famine, {{i|Genocide}} [[Genocide|slaughter]], and {{i|Tyranny}} [[tyranny]] (especially on his own people), which in themselves are terrifying enough. But, the damage dealt by communism goes far beyond this. It has become increasingly clear that, unlike any other system in history, communism declares war on humanity itself — including human values and human dignity. Communism turns the world into its church, bringing all aspects of social life under its purview. It occupies people's thoughts, causing them to revolt against the divine and discard tradition. It is the biggest and main perpetrator of normalizing degeneracy. This is how the devil leads man to his own destruction.
   
   
== History ==
==History==
The ideas of Communism could be traced to come from various {{I|Atheism}} [[Atheism|atheist]] and {{I|Utopianism}} [[Utopianism|utopian]] philosophies from the {{I|Enlightenment}} [[Enlightenment]] in the 17th and 18th century. It was rooted in the radical {{I|Jacobinism}} [[Jacobinism|Jacobinists]]' French Revolution and Reign of Terror. Communism in its modern sense was first termed by {{i|DHupay}} [[D'Hupayism|Victor D'Hupay]] in his book ''Projet de communauté philosophe'' published in 1777. But, communism proper isn't to form until a certain man with a large beard came along.
The ideas of Communism could be traced to come from various {{I|Atheism}} [[Atheism|atheist]] and {{I|Utopianism}} [[Utopianism|utopian]] philosophies from the {{I|Enlightenment}} [[Enlightenment]] in the 17th and 18th century. It was rooted in the radical {{I|Jacobinism}} [[Jacobinism|Jacobinists]]' French Revolution and Reign of Terror. Communism in its modern sense was first termed by {{i|DHupay}} [[D'Hupayism|Victor D'Hupay]] in his book ''Projet de communauté philosophe'' published in 1777. But, communism proper isn't to form until a certain man with a large beard came along.


=== Marx, Engels and early Communism ===
===Marx, Engels and early Communism===
Communism was officially formulated by {{i|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]] and {{i|Engels}} [[Engelsism|Friedrich Engels]] in 1848 through their release of the ''Communist Manifesto''. Marx hated {{i|8ball}} [[Africans|blacks]] and {{i|Jew}} [[Jews]], and was at least a {{i|SecSatan}} [[Secular Satanism|Secular Satanist]] if not a {{i|Satan}} [[Satanism|real Satanist]] for his poems that praise Satan and his maid observing him preforming strange rituals.
Communism was officially formulated by {{i|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]] and {{i|Engels}} [[Engelsism|Friedrich Engels]] in 1848 through their release of the ''Communist Manifesto''. Marx hated {{i|8ball}} [[Africans|blacks]] and {{i|Jew}} [[Jews]], and was at least a {{i|SecSatan}} [[Secular Satanism|Secular Satanist]] if not a {{i|Satan}} [[Satanism|real Satanist]] for his poems that praise Satan and his maid observing him preforming strange rituals.


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Marx believed revolution was inevitable, and the workers (AKA "have-nots") of the {{i|Earth}} [[Earth|world]] would rise up, destroy {{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism]] create a communist {{i|Utopianism}} [[Utopianism|utopia]] for themselves. To Marx and the communists, {{i|Prog}} [[Progressivism|progress]] means the oppressed overthrowing the oppressors.
Marx believed revolution was inevitable, and the workers (AKA "have-nots") of the {{i|Earth}} [[Earth|world]] would rise up, destroy {{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism]] create a communist {{i|Utopianism}} [[Utopianism|utopia]] for themselves. To Marx and the communists, {{i|Prog}} [[Progressivism|progress]] means the oppressed overthrowing the oppressors.


=== Paris Commune & Communist International ===
===Paris Commune & Communist International===
The first communist "government" would not materialize until 1871. The {{i|ParisCom}} [[Paris Commune]] was formed after a humiliating defeat {{I|French3}} [[French Third Republic|France]] took from {{I|Prussia}} [[Prussia]] a year earlier. The Paris Commune began rebellions in March, and seized power over {{i|Paris}} [[Paris]] while burning the precious city all down. The Commune consisted of armed {{I|Left-Ochlocracy}} [[Left-Ochlocracy|mobs]] and {{I|Illegalism}} [[Illegalism|bandits]] from the lowest rung of society. A quarter of Paris was destroyed. Killing and destruction was on a mass scare as the rebels laid waste to countless exquisite relics, monuments and art.
The first communist "government" would not materialize until 1871. The {{i|ParisCom}} [[Paris Commune]] was formed after a humiliating defeat {{I|French3}} [[French Third Republic|France]] took from {{I|Prussia}} [[Prussia]] a year earlier. The Paris Commune began rebellions in March, and seized power over {{i|Paris}} [[Paris]] while burning the precious city all down. The Commune consisted of armed {{I|Left-Ochlocracy}} [[Left-Ochlocracy|mobs]] and {{I|Illegalism}} [[Illegalism|bandits]] from the lowest rung of society. A quarter of Paris was destroyed. Killing and destruction was on a mass scare as the rebels laid waste to countless exquisite relics, monuments and art.


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The Great Purge was a massive wave of purges, unsubstantiated trials, and executions of fellow communist men ordered by Stalin that mainly operated from December 1936 to November 1938. Under the communist system, no matter who you are, be it a so-called ally to the cause, you could still be accused. For the purpose of communism is to destroy mankind, and the paranoia of the devil will forever seek more people to accuse, to brainwash, to kill, to maintain power. Stalin systematically killed off the ranks from Lenin's era, replacing them with his own. Stalin did so usually under the justification that the accused were enemy spies or deemed "enemies of the people"; in the {{I|Red Army}} [[Red Army]], a majority of generals were executed and hundreds of thousands of other "enemies of the people" were sent to the gulag, where inhumane conditions in Siberia led a quick death. The most famous killing was the accusation and assassination of the famous Red Army leader {{i|Trotsky}} [[Trotskyism|Leon Trotsky]] in 1938.
The Great Purge was a massive wave of purges, unsubstantiated trials, and executions of fellow communist men ordered by Stalin that mainly operated from December 1936 to November 1938. Under the communist system, no matter who you are, be it a so-called ally to the cause, you could still be accused. For the purpose of communism is to destroy mankind, and the paranoia of the devil will forever seek more people to accuse, to brainwash, to kill, to maintain power. Stalin systematically killed off the ranks from Lenin's era, replacing them with his own. Stalin did so usually under the justification that the accused were enemy spies or deemed "enemies of the people"; in the {{I|Red Army}} [[Red Army]], a majority of generals were executed and hundreds of thousands of other "enemies of the people" were sent to the gulag, where inhumane conditions in Siberia led a quick death. The most famous killing was the accusation and assassination of the famous Red Army leader {{i|Trotsky}} [[Trotskyism|Leon Trotsky]] in 1938.


=== Spread of Communism, Iron Curtain, Eastern Bloc ===
===Spread of Communism, Iron Curtain, Eastern Bloc===
Like WWI, WWII, from 1939 to 1945, has brought radical changes to the {{i|Earth}} [[Earth|world]]. The {{i|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet communists]], with their military success in Eastern Europe, was able to establish communist puppet regimes across the land after driving out the {{I|NaziWar}} [[Nazism|Nazis]], replacing one monster with another. The {{i|CCP}} [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese communists]] took advantage of the war to grow their army, and thus, with Soviet backing, were able to take full control of China. There was also no serious opposition to {{I|Stalin}} [[Stalinism|Stalin]] as the {{i|NKVD}} [[People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs|NKVD]] secret police continued to send possible suspects to the gulag.
Like WWI, WWII, from 1939 to 1945, has brought radical changes to the {{i|Earth}} [[Earth|world]]. The {{i|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet communists]], with their military success in Eastern Europe, was able to establish communist puppet regimes across the land after driving out the {{I|NaziWar}} [[Nazism|Nazis]], replacing one monster with another. The {{i|CCP}} [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese communists]] took advantage of the war to grow their army, and thus, with Soviet backing, were able to take full control of China. There was also no serious opposition to {{I|Stalin}} [[Stalinism|Stalin]] as the {{i|NKVD}} [[People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs|NKVD]] secret police continued to send possible suspects to the gulag.


Relations with the {{I|USA}} [[United States of America|United States]] and {{I|UK}} [[United Kingdom|Britain]] went from {{I|Allies}} [[Allied Powers|friendly]] to hostile, as they denounced Stalin's political controls over eastern Europe and his blockade of {{I|Berlin}} [[Berlin]]. By 1947, the Cold War had begun. The Soviet communist puppet governments were blocked off from the West, creating an "iron curtain". Those behind the curtain was known as the "{{I|Commie}} [[Eastern Bloc]]", characterized by extreme censorship and oppression.
Relations with the {{I|USA}} [[United States of America|United States]] and {{I|UK}} [[United Kingdom|Britain]] went from {{I|Allies}} [[Allied Powers|friendly]] to hostile, as they denounced Stalin's political controls over eastern Europe and his blockade of {{I|Berlin}} [[Berlin]]. By 1947, the Cold War had begun. The Soviet communist puppet governments were blocked off from the West, creating an "iron curtain". Those behind the curtain was known as the "{{I|Commie}} [[Eastern Bloc]]", characterized by extreme censorship and oppression.


=== Exporting Revolution, Revisionism, and Mao Zedong's Red Asia ===
===Exporting Revolution, Revisionism, and Mao Zedong's Red Asia===
In 1949, after defeating the {{I|KMT}} [[Kuomintang]] in the Chinese Civil War, Chairman {{i|Mao}} [[Mao Zedong Thought|Mao Zedong]] of the now {{i|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|communist China]] implemented his school of {{i|AgSoc}} [[Agrarian Socialism|agrarian]] and {{i|Anti Intellectualism}} [[Anti-Intellectualism|anti-intellectual]] school of communism, known as {{i|Maoism}} [[Maoism]]. It wreaked havoc all across the land.
In 1949, after defeating the {{I|KMT}} [[Kuomintang]] in the Chinese Civil War, Chairman {{i|Mao}} [[Mao Zedong Thought|Mao Zedong]] of the now {{i|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|communist China]] implemented his school of {{i|AgSoc}} [[Agrarian Socialism|agrarian]] and {{i|Anti Intellectualism}} [[Anti-Intellectualism|anti-intellectual]] school of communism, known as {{i|Maoism}} [[Maoism]]. It wreaked havoc all across the land.


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Mao Zedong planned and oversaw several industrial and agricultural initiatives that proved disastrous for the Chinese people. Among the most important of these was the Great Leap Forward (1958-60), his version of Stalin's policy of rapid, forced {{I|Industrialism}} [[Industrialism|industrialization]]. Aiming to produce steel in backyard blast furnaces and to manufacture other commodities in hastily erected small-scale factories, it was a spectacular failure that caused the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese, negatively impacting at least half the population.
Mao Zedong planned and oversaw several industrial and agricultural initiatives that proved disastrous for the Chinese people. Among the most important of these was the Great Leap Forward (1958-60), his version of Stalin's policy of rapid, forced {{I|Industrialism}} [[Industrialism|industrialization]]. Aiming to produce steel in backyard blast furnaces and to manufacture other commodities in hastily erected small-scale factories, it was a spectacular failure that caused the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese, negatively impacting at least half the population.


==== Cuban Revolution ====
====Cuban Revolution====
In 1959, communist {{I|Castro}} [[Castroism|Fidel Castro]] and his {{I|M-26-7}} [[26th of July Movement]] led a coup in {{I|Cuba}} [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]] and ousted {{I|Batista}} [[Batistaism|Fulgencio Batista]]. By 1961, Castro formally declared Cuba a {{I|StateSoc}} [[State Socialism|socialist state]], aligning with USSR and adopting a {{I|OneParty}} [[One-Party State|one-party system]] under the {{i|PCC}} [[Communist Party of Cuba]]. Political opposition was suppressed, independent media shut down, and thousands of Cubans fled the island — including many of those who had supported the revolution's early promise of {{I|Dem}} [[democracy]]. Communism made everybody in Cuba equal, meaning that doctors were getting paid the same wage as taxi drivers, who sometimes makes more money than the latter because of tips. So, Cuba fell into a depressive state as all the important people in society ran off to someplace where their efforts would be properly rewarded.
In 1959, communist {{I|Castro}} [[Castroism|Fidel Castro]] and his {{I|M-26-7}} [[26th of July Movement]] led a coup in {{I|Cuba}} [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]] and ousted {{I|Batista}} [[Batistaism|Fulgencio Batista]]. By 1961, Castro formally declared Cuba a {{I|StateSoc}} [[State Socialism|socialist state]], aligning with USSR and adopting a {{I|OneParty}} [[One-Party State|one-party system]] under the {{i|PCC}} [[Communist Party of Cuba]]. Political opposition was suppressed, independent media shut down, and thousands of Cubans fled the island — including many of those who had supported the revolution's early promise of {{I|Dem}} [[democracy]]. Communism made everybody in Cuba equal, meaning that doctors were getting paid the same wage as taxi drivers, who sometimes makes more money than the latter because of tips. So, Cuba fell into a depressive state as all the important people in society ran off to someplace where their efforts would be properly rewarded.


The {{I|USA}} [[Unietd States of America|United States]]' response was highly negative, leading to a failed invasion attempt in 1961. In response, {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] decided to station nuclear weapons in Cuba in 1962, causing the Cuban Missile Crisis, where there was serious fear of nuclear {{I|War}} [[war]] for a few days. In the end a compromise was reached by which USSR publicly removed his weapons, and the United States secretly removed his weapons from bases in {{I|Turkey}} [[Türkiye]] and promised never to invade Cuba again.
The {{I|USA}} [[Unietd States of America|United States]]' response was highly negative, leading to a failed invasion attempt in 1961. In response, {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] decided to station nuclear weapons in Cuba in 1962, causing the Cuban Missile Crisis, where there was serious fear of nuclear {{I|War}} [[war]] for a few days. In the end a compromise was reached by which USSR publicly removed his weapons, and the United States secretly removed his weapons from bases in {{I|Turkey}} [[Türkiye]] and promised never to invade Cuba again.


==== Sino-Soviet Split ====
====Sino-Soviet Split====
By the 1960s, one third of the world had overthrown {{I|Capitalism}} [[capitalism]] and were trying to build communism. Most of these countries followed the model of the {{I|MarxLenin}} [[Marxism-Leninism|Soviet Union]]. Some followed the model of {{I|Maoism}} [[Maoism|China]]. All were miserable failures.
By the 1960s, one third of the world had overthrown {{I|Capitalism}} [[capitalism]] and were trying to build communism. Most of these countries followed the model of the {{I|MarxLenin}} [[Marxism-Leninism|Soviet Union]]. Some followed the model of {{I|Maoism}} [[Maoism|China]]. All were miserable failures.


The PRC was furious at USSR's {{I|MarxRevision}} [[Reformist Marxism|revisionism]] after the death of {{i|Stalin}} [[Stalinism|Stalin]] in 1953, causing the Sino-Soviet split in 1961. This caused the {{i|Commie}} [[Eastern Bloc|communist bloc]] being split into two sides: one led by USSR, and the other led by PRC. The two competed for influence, exporting communism to many nations of Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
The PRC was furious at USSR's {{I|MarxRevision}} [[Reformist Marxism|revisionism]] after the death of {{i|Stalin}} [[Stalinism|Stalin]] in 1953, causing the Sino-Soviet split in 1961. This caused the {{i|Commie}} [[Eastern Bloc|communist bloc]] being split into two sides: one led by USSR, and the other led by PRC. The two competed for influence, exporting communism to many nations of Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.


==== Eurocommunism ====
====Eurocommunism====
An important trend in several countries in Western Europe from the late 1960s into the 1980s was {{I|Eurocom}} [[Eurocommunism]], which was the strongest in {{I|Spain}} [[Spain]]'s {{I|PCE}} [[Communist Party of Spain|PCE]], {{I|Finland}} [[Finland]]'s {{I|SKP}} [[Communist Party of Finland|SKP]], and especially {{I|Italy}} [[Italy]]'s {{I|PCI}} [[Italian Communist Party|PCI]]. These parties drew on the degenerate ideas of {{i|Gramsci}} [[Gramscianism|Antonio Gramsci]] and was developed by communist party members who were disillusioned with both the {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]] and {{I|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]] and sought an independent program. They accepted {{I|LibDem}} [[Liberal Democracy|liberal parliamentary democracy]] and {{I|Free Speech}} [[Free Speech Advocacy|free speech]] as well as even accepting with some conditions a {{I|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalist]] market economy. They did not speak of the destruction of capitalism but sought to win the support of the masses and by a gradual transformation of the bureaucracies.
An important trend in several countries in Western Europe from the late 1960s into the 1980s was {{I|Eurocom}} [[Eurocommunism]], which was the strongest in {{I|Spain}} [[Spain]]'s {{I|PCE}} [[Communist Party of Spain|PCE]], {{I|Finland}} [[Finland]]'s {{I|SKP}} [[Communist Party of Finland|SKP]], and especially {{I|Italy}} [[Italy]]'s {{I|PCI}} [[Italian Communist Party|PCI]]. These parties drew on the degenerate ideas of {{i|Gramsci}} [[Gramscianism|Antonio Gramsci]] and was developed by communist party members who were disillusioned with both the {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]] and {{I|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]] and sought an independent program. They accepted {{I|LibDem}} [[Liberal Democracy|liberal parliamentary democracy]] and {{I|Free Speech}} [[Free Speech Advocacy|free speech]] as well as even accepting with some conditions a {{I|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalist]] market economy. They did not speak of the destruction of capitalism but sought to win the support of the masses and by a gradual transformation of the bureaucracies.


==== African Communism ====
====African Communism====
<blockquote>''See also: {{I|AfrSoc}} [[African Socialism]]''</blockquote>
<blockquote>''See also: {{I|AfrSoc}} [[African Socialism]]''</blockquote>


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Communism spread throughout Asia via communist China. In 1975, {{I|South Vietnam}} [[South Vietnam]] was capitulated and all of Vietnam fell into communist hands. It has been estimated that between 2 and 3 million deaths occurred after the fall of {{i|South Vietnam}} [[Saigon]], in compliance with {{I|HoChiMinh}} [[Hồ Chí Minh Thought|Ho Chi Minh]]'s instructions. The same year, {{I|PolPot}} [[Pol Potism|Pol Pot]]'s {{I|Khmer Rouge}} [[Democratic Kampuchea]] took over {{I|KhmerRep}} [[Khmer Republic|Cambodia]] and turned the country into literally hell on {{I|Earth}} [[Earth]]. Under Pol Pot's rule, 25% of the entire population suffered unnatural deaths directly from his policies. It was similar to PRC's Cultural Revolution, but even worse and even more schizophrenic. Many innocent people were sent to the killing fields just because they wore glasses and spoke foreign languages.
Communism spread throughout Asia via communist China. In 1975, {{I|South Vietnam}} [[South Vietnam]] was capitulated and all of Vietnam fell into communist hands. It has been estimated that between 2 and 3 million deaths occurred after the fall of {{i|South Vietnam}} [[Saigon]], in compliance with {{I|HoChiMinh}} [[Hồ Chí Minh Thought|Ho Chi Minh]]'s instructions. The same year, {{I|PolPot}} [[Pol Potism|Pol Pot]]'s {{I|Khmer Rouge}} [[Democratic Kampuchea]] took over {{I|KhmerRep}} [[Khmer Republic|Cambodia]] and turned the country into literally hell on {{I|Earth}} [[Earth]]. Under Pol Pot's rule, 25% of the entire population suffered unnatural deaths directly from his policies. It was similar to PRC's Cultural Revolution, but even worse and even more schizophrenic. Many innocent people were sent to the killing fields just because they wore glasses and spoke foreign languages.


==== West's Romanticization of Communism ====  
====West's Romanticization of Communism====
During the Cold War, many {{I|Intellectualism}} [[Intellectualism|intellectuals]], {{I|Artist}} [[Art|artists]], {{I|Mediacracy}} [[Mediacracy|journalists]], {{I|Politics}} [[Politics|politicians]], and young students from the free world went to {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Russia]], {{i|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]], or {{I|CommieCuba}} [[Communist Cuba|Cuba]] as tourists and travelers. What they saw, or rather were allowed to see, was completely different from the lived reality of the people of those countries. Communist countries have perfected their deception of foreigners: everything the foreign visitors saw was carefully crafted for their tastes, including the model villages, factories, schools, hospitals, daycare centers, and prisons. The receptionists they encountered were members of the ruling Communist Party or others considered politically reliable. The tours were rehearsed, the visitors were greeted with flowers, wine, dancing and singing, banquets, and smiling young children and officials. Then they were taken to see people hard at work, able to talk freely and as equals; students studying hard; and lovely weddings. What they didn't get to see were the show trials, mass sentencings, {{I|Left-Ochlocracy}} [[Left-Ochlocracy|mob lynchings]], struggle sessions, kidnappings, brainwashing, solitary confinement, {{I|LeftSlave}} [[Left-Slavery|forced labor camps]], {{I|Genocide}} [[Genocide|massacres]], {{I|Socialism}} [[Socialism|theft of land and property]], famines, shortages of public services, lack of privacy, eavesdropping, surveillance, monitoring by neighbors and informants everywhere, brutal political struggles in the leadership, and {{I|Plutocracy}} [[Plutocracy|extravagant luxuries]] of the communist {{I|Elitism}} [[Elitism|elite]]. They especially weren't able to see the suffering of ordinary people.
During the Cold War, many {{I|Intellectualism}} [[Intellectualism|intellectuals]], {{I|Artist}} [[Art|artists]], {{I|Mediacracy}} [[Mediacracy|journalists]], {{I|Politics}} [[Politics|politicians]], and young students from the free world went to {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Russia]], {{i|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]], or {{I|CommieCuba}} [[Communist Cuba|Cuba]] as tourists and travelers. What they saw, or rather were allowed to see, was completely different from the lived reality of the people of those countries. Communist countries have perfected their deception of foreigners: everything the foreign visitors saw was carefully crafted for their tastes, including the model villages, factories, schools, hospitals, daycare centers, and prisons. The receptionists they encountered were members of the ruling Communist Party or others considered politically reliable. The tours were rehearsed, the visitors were greeted with flowers, wine, dancing and singing, banquets, and smiling young children and officials. Then they were taken to see people hard at work, able to talk freely and as equals; students studying hard; and lovely weddings. What they didn't get to see were the show trials, mass sentencings, {{I|Left-Ochlocracy}} [[Left-Ochlocracy|mob lynchings]], struggle sessions, kidnappings, brainwashing, solitary confinement, {{I|LeftSlave}} [[Left-Slavery|forced labor camps]], {{I|Genocide}} [[Genocide|massacres]], {{I|Socialism}} [[Socialism|theft of land and property]], famines, shortages of public services, lack of privacy, eavesdropping, surveillance, monitoring by neighbors and informants everywhere, brutal political struggles in the leadership, and {{I|Plutocracy}} [[Plutocracy|extravagant luxuries]] of the communist {{I|Elitism}} [[Elitism|elite]]. They especially weren't able to see the suffering of ordinary people.


The visitors mistook what had been staged for them as the norm in a communist country. They then promoted communism in the West through books, articles, and speeches, and many of them didn't know they had been taken in. A small number did see cracks in the edifice, but many of them then fell into another trap: they saw themselves as "fellow travelers" and adopted the attitude of "not airing dirty laundry in front of outsiders". The slaughter, famine, and {{I|Totalitarianism}} [[Totalitarianism|suppression]] of communist countries, they reasoned, were simply part of the cost of transitioning to communism. They were confident that while the path to communism was crooked, the future was bright. They refused to tell the truth, because that would be blackening the name of the "{{I|Socialism}} [[Socialism|socialist]] project". Lacking the courage to tell the truth, they chose a shameful silence.
The visitors mistook what had been staged for them as the norm in a communist country. They then promoted communism in the West through books, articles, and speeches, and many of them didn't know they had been taken in. A small number did see cracks in the edifice, but many of them then fell into another trap: they saw themselves as "fellow travelers" and adopted the attitude of "not airing dirty laundry in front of outsiders". The slaughter, famine, and {{I|Totalitarianism}} [[Totalitarianism|suppression]] of communist countries, they reasoned, were simply part of the cost of transitioning to communism. They were confident that while the path to communism was crooked, the future was bright. They refused to tell the truth, because that would be blackening the name of the "{{I|Socialism}} [[Socialism|socialist]] project". Lacking the courage to tell the truth, they chose a shameful silence.


==== Reformations for Survival ====
====Reformations for Survival====
After decades of hardcore communism, the two major communist powers that is {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|USSR]] and {{i|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]] both had to implement {{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalistic]] reforms in order to save themselves from their collapsing economies.
After decades of hardcore communism, the two major communist powers that is {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|USSR]] and {{i|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]] both had to implement {{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalistic]] reforms in order to save themselves from their collapsing economies.


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In 1985, {{I|Gorbachev}} [[Gorbachevism|Mikhail Gorbachev]] rose to power in the {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]] and began policies of radical political reform involving political {{I|Lib}} [[Liberalism|liberalization]] called ''perestroika'' and ''glasnost''. Gorbachev's policies were designed to dismantle the {{I|Auth}} [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] elements of the state that were developed by Stalin, aiming to restore the supposed ideal {{I|Leninism}} [[Leninism|Leninist]] state and retaining a {{I|OneParty}} [[One-Party State|one-party structure]] but allowing the {{I|Dem}} [[Democracy|democratic]] election of competing candidates to political office within the party. Gorbachev also aimed to restore {{I|Pacifism}} [[Pacifism|détente]] with the West and he also aimed to end the Cold War that was being waged by the Soviet Union because it was no longer economically sustainable.
In 1985, {{I|Gorbachev}} [[Gorbachevism|Mikhail Gorbachev]] rose to power in the {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]] and began policies of radical political reform involving political {{I|Lib}} [[Liberalism|liberalization]] called ''perestroika'' and ''glasnost''. Gorbachev's policies were designed to dismantle the {{I|Auth}} [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] elements of the state that were developed by Stalin, aiming to restore the supposed ideal {{I|Leninism}} [[Leninism|Leninist]] state and retaining a {{I|OneParty}} [[One-Party State|one-party structure]] but allowing the {{I|Dem}} [[Democracy|democratic]] election of competing candidates to political office within the party. Gorbachev also aimed to restore {{I|Pacifism}} [[Pacifism|détente]] with the West and he also aimed to end the Cold War that was being waged by the Soviet Union because it was no longer economically sustainable.


==== Decay & Fall of the Eastern Communist Bloc ====
====Decay & Fall of the Eastern Communist Bloc====
For much of the 20th century, about one-third of the {{I|Earth}} [[Earth|world]]'s population lived under {{I|StateSoc}} [[State Socialism|communist regimes]]. These regimes were characterized by the {{I|OneParty}} [[One-Party State|rule of a single party]] that tolerated no {{I|AntiAuth}} [[Anti-Authoritarianism|opposition]] and little dissent. Instead of a {{I|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalist]] economy in which people can compete for profits, party leaders established a command economy in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals. This insufficiency is one of the factors that drove the majority of communist states to extinction.
For much of the 20th century, about one-third of the {{I|Earth}} [[Earth|world]]'s population lived under {{I|StateSoc}} [[State Socialism|communist regimes]]. These regimes were characterized by the {{I|OneParty}} [[One-Party State|rule of a single party]] that tolerated no {{I|AntiAuth}} [[Anti-Authoritarianism|opposition]] and little dissent. Instead of a {{I|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalist]] economy in which people can compete for profits, party leaders established a command economy in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals. This insufficiency is one of the factors that drove the majority of communist states to extinction.


Social resistance to the policies of communist regimes in Eastern Europe accelerated in strength with the rise of the {{I|Solidarnosc}} [[Solidarnosc|Solidarity]], the first non-communist controlled trade union in the {{I|Warsaw Pact}} [[Warsaw Pact]] that was formed in the {{I|PRPoland}} [[Polish People's Republic]] in 1980.
Social resistance to the policies of communist regimes in Eastern Europe accelerated in strength with the rise of the {{I|Solidarnosc}} [[Solidarnosc|Solidarity]], the first non-communist controlled trade union in the {{I|Warsaw Pact}} [[Warsaw Pact]] that was formed in the {{I|PRPoland}} [[Polish People's Republic]] in 1980.


In 1989, revolts began across {{I|Warsaw Pact}} [[Warsaw Pact|Eastern Europe]] and {{I|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]] against communist regimes. In China, the {{I|CCP}} [[Chinese Communist Party|government]] refused to negotiate with {{I|64}} [[6/4 Tiananmen Square Protests|student protestors]] and massacred them while they were at Tiananmen Square. The Eastern Europeans were more lucky, as {{I|Berlin}} [[Berlin]] Wall fell that year, uniting the communist {{i|East Germany}} [[East Germany]] to the {{I|West Germany}} [[West Germany|West]]. People cheered and poured over the wall. This was a significant blow to the communist bloc. More and more of Soviet's communist satellite states began breaking away and declaring freedom.
In 1989, revolts began across {{I|Warsaw Pact}} [[Warsaw Pact|Eastern Europe]] and {{I|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]] against communist regimes. In China, the {{I|CCP}} [[Chinese Communist Party|government]] refused to negotiate with {{I|64}} [[1989 Tiananmen Square Protests|student protestors]] and massacred them while they were at Tiananmen Square. The Eastern Europeans were more lucky, as {{I|Berlin}} [[Berlin]] Wall fell that year, uniting the communist {{i|East Germany}} [[East Germany]] to the {{I|West Germany}} [[West Germany|West]]. People cheered and poured over the wall. This was a significant blow to the communist bloc. More and more of Soviet's communist satellite states began breaking away and declaring freedom.


Meanwhile, the {{I|Eurocom}} [[Eurocommunism|Eurocommunist]] movement in Western Europe that had faded in the 1980s collapsed with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.
Meanwhile, the {{I|Eurocom}} [[Eurocommunism|Eurocommunist]] movement in Western Europe that had faded in the 1980s collapsed with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.
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In 1991, the impossible happened: the great superpower USSR has fallen. One by one the republics declared their independence. Out of the Soviet corpse, there arose 15 new nations ready to start their future without communism.
In 1991, the impossible happened: the great superpower USSR has fallen. One by one the republics declared their independence. Out of the Soviet corpse, there arose 15 new nations ready to start their future without communism.


=== Contemporary Communism ===
===Contemporary Communism===
The collapse of the communist regimes in the {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]] and {{I|Slav}} [[Eastern Europe]] in 1991 marked the end of a half-century-long Cold War between the {{I|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalist]] and communist camps in the East and West. Many were thus {{I|Optimism}} [[Optimism|optimistic]], holding the belief that communism had become a relic of the past. The sad truth, however, is that a transmogrified communist ideology has instead taken hold and entrenched itself around the {{I|Earth}} [[Earth|world]]. There are the last remaining outright communist regimes like {{I|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]], {{I|NKorea}} [[North Korea]], {{I|CommieCuba}} [[Communist Cuba|Cuba]], {{I|Laos}} [[Lao People's Democratic Republic|Laos]] and {{I|Vietnam}} [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam|Vietnam]]; there are the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, where communist ideology, nostalgia and customs still exert a significant influence; there are the African and South American countries, which attempt {{I|Socialism}} [[socialism]] under the banner of {{I|Dem}} [[democracy]] and {{I|Republic}} [[republicanism]]—and then there are the nations of Europe and North America, whose body politics have become host to communist influences, without people even realizing it. To this day, there are numerous Westerners who harbor romantic fantasies about communism, yet they've never lived in a communist country and borne the suffering there, and thus have no understanding of what communism actually means in practice.
The collapse of the communist regimes in the {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]] and {{I|Slav}} [[Eastern Europe]] in 1991 marked the end of a half-century-long Cold War between the {{I|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalist]] and communist camps in the East and West. Many were thus {{I|Optimism}} [[Optimism|optimistic]], holding the belief that communism had become a relic of the past. The sad truth, however, is that a transmogrified communist ideology has instead taken hold and entrenched itself around the {{I|Earth}} [[Earth|world]]. There are the last remaining outright communist regimes like {{I|PRC}} [[People's Republic of China|China]], {{I|NKorea}} [[North Korea]], {{I|CommieCuba}} [[Communist Cuba|Cuba]], {{I|Laos}} [[Lao People's Democratic Republic|Laos]] and {{I|Vietnam}} [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam|Vietnam]]; there are the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, where communist ideology, nostalgia and customs still exert a significant influence; there are the African and South American countries, which attempt {{I|Socialism}} [[socialism]] under the banner of {{I|Dem}} [[democracy]] and {{I|Republic}} [[republicanism]]—and then there are the nations of Europe and North America, whose body politics have become host to communist influences, without people even realizing it. To this day, there are numerous Westerners who harbor romantic fantasies about communism, yet they've never lived in a communist country and borne the suffering there, and thus have no understanding of what communism actually means in practice.


{{I|Deng}} [[Dengism|China's communism]] has become something unrecognizable today. Since the {{I|64}} [[6/4 Tiananmen Square Protests|Tiananmen Square protests and massacre of 1989]], there had been a "money craze" where everyone cared about nothing but money due to the change of policies as to the result of political reshuffling within the {{I|CCP}} [[Chinese Communist Party|CCP]]. Many would say that economically, and seeing the enormous class differences, China has turned full {{I|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalist]]. However, back in the {{I|Maoism}} [[Maoism|Mao era]] where everyone was {{I|Absolute Equality}} [[Absolute Equality|absolutely equal]] class differences still existed. At least in capitalism workers get paid a fair wage, injury benefits among others, while these are absent in China. It seems like China is living through a real version of the false idea of capitalism that {{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Marx]] painted in his writings.
{{I|Deng}} [[Dengism|China's communism]] has become something unrecognizable today. Since the {{I|64}} [[1989 Tiananmen Square Protests|Tiananmen Square protests and massacre of 1989]], there had been a "money craze" where everyone cared about nothing but money due to the change of policies as to the result of political reshuffling within the {{I|CCP}} [[Chinese Communist Party|CCP]]. Many would say that economically, and seeing the enormous class differences, China has turned full {{I|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalist]]. However, back in the {{I|Maoism}} [[Maoism|Mao era]] where everyone was {{I|Absolute Equality}} [[Absolute Equality|absolutely equal]] class differences still existed. At least in capitalism workers get paid a fair wage, injury benefits among others, while these are absent in China. It seems like China is living through a real version of the false idea of capitalism that {{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Marx]] painted in his writings.


After losing Soviet subsidies and support, Vietnam and Cuba have attracted more foreign investment to their countries, with their economies becoming more market-oriented. North Korea, the last communist country that still practices Soviet-style communism, is both {{I|Totalitarianism}} [[Totalitarianism|repressive]] and {{I|Isolationism}} [[Isolationism|isolationist]]. In {{I|Nepal}} [[Nepal]], communist guerrillas got elected {{I|Dem}} [[Democracy|democratically]] in 2008 and remained the major ruling party before being overthrown in 2025.
After losing Soviet subsidies and support, Vietnam and Cuba have attracted more foreign investment to their countries, with their economies becoming more market-oriented. North Korea, the last communist country that still practices Soviet-style communism, is both {{I|Totalitarianism}} [[Totalitarianism|repressive]] and {{I|Isolationism}} [[Isolationism|isolationist]]. In {{I|Nepal}} [[Nepal]], communist guerrillas got elected {{I|Dem}} [[Democracy|democratically]] in 2008 and remained the major ruling party before being overthrown in 2025.


==== Western New Left: Neo-Marxism in Drag ====
====Western New Left: Neo-Marxism in Drag====
Communist ideology did not fade into {{i|History}} [[history]] at the end of the Cold War. In fact, the {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] infiltration and subversion of the free world during that period was way more successful than he could have ever hoped. In essence, the same underlying philosophy lies behind the "{{i|ModernLeft}} [[Western New Left]]" and "traditional" communist regimes.
Communist ideology did not fade into {{i|History}} [[history]] at the end of the Cold War. In fact, the {{I|USSR}} [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] infiltration and subversion of the free world during that period was way more successful than he could have ever hoped. In essence, the same underlying philosophy lies behind the "{{i|ModernLeft}} [[Western New Left]]" and "traditional" communist regimes.


There was the {{i|PostMod}} [[Post-Modernism|Post-Modernists]], who declared that power doesn't just exist between the rich and poor, it exists EVERYWHERE. Between {{i|Male}} [[Male|man]] and {{i|Female}} [[Female|women]], {{i|2ball}} [[Indo-Europeans|white]] and {{i|8ball}} [[Africans|black]], fit and {{i|Fat}} [[Lipostocracy|fat]], you name it. All relationships became power struggles, and the personal became the political.
There was the {{i|PostMod}} [[Post-Modernism|Post-Modernists]], who declared that power doesn't just exist between the rich and poor, it exists everywhere. Between {{i|Male}} [[Male|man]] and {{i|Female}} [[Female|women]], {{i|2ball}} [[Indo-Europeans|white]] and {{i|8ball}} [[Africans|black]], fit and {{i|Fat}} [[Lipostocracy|fat]], you name it. All relationships became power struggles, and the personal became the political.


Then emerged {{i|Intersectionality}} [[Intersectionality]], who claimed that oppression isn't one dimensional and instead a matrix, with every identity adding a layer of victimhood and privilege. The {{i|ModernLeft}} [[Western New Left|modern progressives]] are really just {{i|NeoMarx}} [[Neo-Marxism|neo-Marxism]] in drag.
Then emerged {{i|Intersectionality}} [[Intersectionality]], who claimed that oppression isn't one dimensional and instead a matrix, with every identity adding a layer of victimhood and privilege. The {{i|ModernLeft}} [[Western New Left|modern progressives]] are really just {{i|NeoMarx}} [[Neo-Marxism|neo-Marxism]] in drag.


One of the most famous movement in spreading communism in the modern West would be {{i|Antifa}} [[Antifa]], a radical {{i|Anarchism}} [[Anarchism|anarchist]] and {{i|Marx}} [[Marxism|Marxist]] militia that solidified around the year 2016. Antifa is known for targeting violent attacks against {{i|Moderatism}} [[Moderatism|moderates]] and {{i|RightUnity}} [[Right Unity|rightists]] while pushing for their communist ideology, often using common buzzwords such as "{{i|Fascism}} [[Fascism|fascist]]" and "bigot" to label their opponents, a strategy many other far-left groups in the West have taken on to use.
One of the most famous movement in spreading communism in the modern West would be {{i|Antifa}} [[Antifa]], a radical {{i|Anarchism}} [[Anarchism|anarchist]] and {{i|Marx}} [[Marxism|Marxist]] street militia that solidified around the year 2016. Antifa is known for targeting violent attacks against {{i|Moderatism}} [[Moderatism|moderates]] and {{i|RightUnity}} [[Right Unity|rightists]] while pushing for their communist ideology, often using common buzzwords such as "{{i|Fascism}} [[Fascism|fascist]]" and "bigot" to label their opponents, a strategy many other far-left groups in the West have taken on to use.


== Beliefs ==
==Beliefs==
Communism wants to dismantle class hierarchies and traditional authority in pursuit of {{i|Absolute Equality}} [[Absolute Equality|radical equality]]. To enforce this, communist regimes relied on propaganda, censorship, political imprisonment and the destruction of cultural identity.
Communism wants to dismantle class hierarchies and traditional authority in pursuit of {{i|Absolute Equality}} [[Absolute Equality|radical equality]]. To enforce this, communist regimes relied on propaganda, censorship, political imprisonment and the destruction of cultural identity.


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'''''The divine established the forms that morality, government, law, society, and culture should take; communism seeks the violent overthrow of existing social structures.'''''
'''''The divine established the forms that morality, government, law, society, and culture should take; communism seeks the violent overthrow of existing social structures.'''''


=== Heaven on Earth ===
===Heaven on Earth===
The "heaven on earth" is communism's biggest lie. Communism uses its program of creating a "paradise" on earth to promote an {{I|Atheism}} [[Atheism|atheistic]] conception of "{{I|SocProg}} [[Social Progressivism|social progress]]". It uses {{I|Materialism}} [[materialism]] to undermine the spiritual pursuits of mankind in order to enable the communist ideology to spread to every sphere, including not only social studies and philosophy but even natural sciences and {{I|Religion}} [[Religion|religious]] teaching. Like a malignant tumor, communism metastasizes, eliminating other beliefs — including the {{i|Theism}} [[Theism|belief in the divine]] — as it spreads. In turn, it destroys {{i|Nationalism}} [[Nationalism|national sovereignty]] and identity, and humanity's {{i|Moralism}} [[Moralism|moral]] and {{i|CultNat}} [[Cultural Nationalism|cultural]] traditions, thus leading man to destruction. In The Communist Manifesto, {{i|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Marx]] proclaimed, "The {{i|Marxism}} [[Marxism|communist revolution]] is the most radical rupture with {{i|Propertarianism}} [[Propertarianism|traditional property relations]]; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with {{i|Tradition}} [[Traditionalism|traditional ideas]]." Marx thus accurately summarized the practice of communism over the past two centuries.
The "heaven on earth" is communism's biggest lie. Communism uses its program of creating a "paradise" on earth to promote an {{I|Atheism}} [[Atheism|atheistic]] conception of "{{I|SocProg}} [[Social Progressivism|social progress]]". It uses {{I|Materialism}} [[materialism]] to undermine the spiritual pursuits of mankind in order to enable the communist ideology to spread to every sphere, including not only social studies and philosophy but even natural sciences and {{I|Religion}} [[Religion|religious]] teaching. Like a malignant tumor, communism metastasizes, eliminating other beliefs — including the {{i|Theism}} [[Theism|belief in the divine]] — as it spreads. In turn, it destroys {{i|Nationalism}} [[Nationalism|national sovereignty]] and identity, and humanity's {{i|Moralism}} [[Moralism|moral]] and {{i|CultNat}} [[Cultural Nationalism|cultural]] traditions, thus leading man to destruction. In The Communist Manifesto, {{i|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Marx]] proclaimed, "The {{i|Marxism}} [[Marxism|communist revolution]] is the most radical rupture with {{i|Propertarianism}} [[Propertarianism|traditional property relations]]; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with {{i|Tradition}} [[Traditionalism|traditional ideas]]." Marx thus accurately summarized the practice of communism over the past two centuries.


== Quotes ==
==Quotes==
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|s1={{Quote|A {{I|Immoralism}} [[Immoralism|Spector]] is haunting {{I|Europe}} [[Europe]] — the Spector of Communism.|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]]}}
|s1={{QSfit|{{Quote|A {{I|Immoralism}} [[Immoralism|Spector]] is haunting {{I|Europe}} [[Europe]] — the Spector of Communism.|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]]}}}}


{{Quote|The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all {{I|Propertarianism}} [[Propertarianism|private property]].|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]]}}
{{QSfit|{{Quote|The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all {{I|Propertarianism}} [[Propertarianism|private property]].|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]]}}}}


{{Quote|The {{i|History}} [[history]] of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]]}}
{{QSfit|{{Quote|The {{i|History}} [[history]] of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]]}}}}


|s2={{Quote|We have {{i|Anti-Altruism}} [[Anti-Altruism|no compassion]] and we ask no {{i|Altruism}} [[Altruism|compassion]] from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the {{i|RevSoc}} [[Revolutionary Socialism|terror]].|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]] & {{i|Engels}} [[Engelsism|Friedrich Engels]]}}
|s2={{QSfit|{{Quote|We have {{i|Anti-Altruism}} [[Anti-Altruism|no compassion]] and we ask no {{i|Altruism}} [[Altruism|compassion]] from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the {{i|RevSoc}} [[Revolutionary Socialism|terror]].|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]] & {{i|Engels}} [[Engelsism|Friedrich Engels]]}}}}


{{Quote|There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified, and concentrated, and that way is {{i|RevSoc}} [[Revolutionary Socialism|revolutionary terror]].|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]]}}
{{QSfit|{{Quote|There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified, and concentrated, and that way is {{i|RevSoc}} [[Revolutionary Socialism|revolutionary terror]].|{{I|MarxC}} [[Karl Marx Thought|Karl Marx]]}}}}


|s3={{Quote|The goal of {{i|Socialism}} [[socialism]] is communism.|{{i|Lenin}} [[Vladimir Lenin Thought|Vladimir Lenin]]}}
|s3={{QSfit|{{Quote|The goal of {{i|Socialism}} [[socialism]] is communism.|{{i|Lenin}} [[Vladimir Lenin Thought|Vladimir Lenin]]}}}}


{{Quote|We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat. Our morality stems from the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat.|{{i|Lenin}} [[Vladimir Lenin Thought|Vladimir Lenin]]}}
{{QSfit|{{Quote|We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat. Our morality stems from the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat.|{{i|Lenin}} [[Vladimir Lenin Thought|Vladimir Lenin]]}}}}


|s4={{Quote|When we hang the {{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalists]], they will sell us the rope we use.|{{i|Stalin}} [[Stalinism|Joseph Stalin]]}}
|s4={{QSfit|{{Quote|When we hang the {{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism|capitalists]], they will sell us the rope we use.|{{i|Stalin}} [[Stalinism|Joseph Stalin]]}}}}


|s5={{Quote|Communism was not {{i|Altruism}} [[Altruism|love]]. Communism was a {{i|Totalitarianism}} [[Totalitarianism|hammer]] which we used to crush the enemy.|{{i|Mao}} [[Mao Zedong Thought|Mao Zedong]]}}
|s5={{QSfit|{{Quote|Communism was not {{i|Altruism}} [[Altruism|love]]. Communism was a {{i|Totalitarianism}} [[Totalitarianism|hammer]] which we used to crush the enemy.|{{i|Mao}} [[Mao Zedong Thought|Mao Zedong]]}}}}


{{Quote|A revolution is not a {{i|Optimism}} [[Optimism|dinner party]], or {{i|Noocracy}} [[Noocracy|writing an essay]], or {{i|Artist}} [[Art|painting a picture]], or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, {{i|Altruism}} [[Altruism|kind]], courteous, {{i|Asceticism}} [[Asceticism|restrained]], and magnanimous. A revolution is an {{i|Insurrectionary}} [[Insurrectionary Anarchism|insurrection]], an act of {{i|Aggression}} [[Aggressionism|violence]] by which one class overthrows another.|{{i|Mao}} [[Mao Zedong Thought|Mao Zedong]]}}
{{QSfit|{{Quote|A revolution is not a {{i|Optimism}} [[Optimism|dinner party]], or {{i|Noocracy}} [[Noocracy|writing an essay]], or {{i|Artist}} [[Art|painting a picture]], or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, {{i|Altruism}} [[Altruism|kind]], courteous, {{i|Asceticism}} [[Asceticism|restrained]], and magnanimous. A revolution is an {{i|Insurrectionary}} [[Insurrectionary Anarchism|insurrection]], an act of {{i|Aggression}} [[Aggressionism|violence]] by which one class overthrows another.|{{i|Mao}} [[Mao Zedong Thought|Mao Zedong]]}}}}
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== Relationships ==
==Relationships==
=== Comrades ===
===Comrades===
*{{i|Socialism}} [[Socialism]] - The path to liberation!
*{{i|Socialism}} [[Socialism]] - The path to liberation!
*{{i|Marx}} [[Marxism]] - My main branch!
*{{i|Marx}} [[Marxism]] - My main branch!
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*{{I|NatCom}} [[National Communism]] - Integrating a country's culture and equating it with communism is great propaganda! But {{I|MarxC}} [[Karl MArx Thought|Marx]] thinks that in the end we still need to abolish the sense of a "{{I|Nationalism}} [[Nationalism|nation]]".
*{{I|NatCom}} [[National Communism]] - Integrating a country's culture and equating it with communism is great propaganda! But {{I|MarxC}} [[Karl MArx Thought|Marx]] thinks that in the end we still need to abolish the sense of a "{{I|Nationalism}} [[Nationalism|nation]]".
*{{I|AnTot}} [[Anarcho-Totalitarianism]] - Both? Both is good, as long as degeneracy is practiced and enforced.
*{{I|AnTot}} [[Anarcho-Totalitarianism]] - Both? Both is good, as long as degeneracy is practiced and enforced.
*{{i|Frankfurt School}} [[Frankfurt School]] - Destroy {{i|Tradition}} [[Traditionalism|traditional culture]]!
*{{I|ModernLeft}} [[Western New Left]] - Never would I have dreamt of the success I got in the West! Your ideals of destruction is perfect. After all, why shouldn't we establish communist breakaway states and wreak havoc on society? Real communism has never been tried!
*{{I|ModernLeft}} [[Western New Left]] - Never would I have dreamt of the success I got in the West! Your ideals of destruction is perfect. After all, why shouldn't we establish communist breakaway states and wreak havoc on society? Real communism has never been tried!


=== Frenemies ===
===Frenemies===
*{{i|AntiAuth}} [[Anti-Authoritarianism]] - If there are protests in the First World; long live the people's revolution! If there are protests in other places, it's a {{i|CIA}} [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]-backed colour revolution!
*{{i|AntiAuth}} [[Anti-Authoritarianism]] - If there are protests in the First World; long live the people's revolution! If there are protests in other places, it's a {{i|CIA}} [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]-backed colour revolution!
*{{i|LGBTQ}} [[LGBTQ+|LGBT Movement]] - You make a great tool for destroying the {{I|NucFam}} [[Nuclear Family Model|family]], but I don't actually care about your rights.
*{{i|LGBTQ}} [[LGBTQ+|LGBT Movement]] - You make a great tool for destroying the {{I|NucFam}} [[Nuclear Family Model|family]], but I don't actually care about your rights.


=== Class Enemies ===
===Class Enemies===
*{{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism]] - THE WORST OPPRESSOR!!! You exploit the poor by not handing your business to them! How dare someone have life better than me!  
*{{i|Capitalism}} [[Capitalism]] - THE WORST OPPRESSOR!!! You exploit the poor by not handing your business to them, even though they are your customers and help your business! Your success is preventing the workers from rising up against you, that is very frustrating. How dare someone have life better than me!  
*{{i|Fascism}} [[Fascism]] - You stole my aesthetics, my {{i|StateSoc}} [[State Socialism|one-party state]] model, my mass rallies, and even my planned economy—then called me your enemy! The nerve.
*{{i|Fascism}} [[Fascism]] - The reaction to oppose me. You stole my aesthetics, my {{i|StateSoc}} [[State Socialism|one-party state]] model, my mass rallies, and even my planned economy—then called me your enemy! The nerve.
*{{i|Feudalism}} [[Feudalism]] - Backwards phase of humanity!
*{{i|Feudalism}} [[Feudalism]] - Backwards phase of humanity!
*{{i|Theism}} [[Theism]] - You and your foolish backward mind. {{i|Materialism}} [[Materialism]] is all there is! You are the opium of the people! There has never been a savior, there has never been a creator! If we want to find prosperity, we must fight, we must struggle till the end! For the people of course, even though they suffer the most of it…
*{{i|Theism}} [[Theism]] - You and your foolish backward mind. {{i|Materialism}} [[Materialism]] is all there is! You are the opium of the people! There has never been a savior, there has never been a creator! If we want to find prosperity, we must fight, we must struggle till the end! For the people of course, even though they suffer the most of it…
*{{i|McCarthyism}} [[McCarthyism]] - Oh, the red devil isn't coming for you… it's already here.
*{{i|McCarthyism}} [[McCarthyism]] - Oh, the red devil isn't coming for you… it's already here.


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Communism is neither a trend of thought, nor a doctrine, nor a failed attempt at a new way of ordering human affairs. Instead, it should be understood as a devil — an evil specter forged by hate, degeneracy, and other elemental forces in the universe.
🏳️ How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World

Communism is a 🏳️ far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology. It is vile and 🏳️ evil, promoting degeneracy and hatred everywhere it touches, through 🏳️ violence or masked 🏳️ nonviolence. On the surface, it advocates for a classless society absent of currency, 🏳️ private property, and the 🏳️ traditional family, and aims to achieve this goal through class struggle, for a so-called "🏳️ heaven on earth". It openly expresses distain for the 😇 divine and seeks to destroy 👤 man, both spiritually and physically through a variety of methods.

Communism breeds 🏳️ war, famine, 🏳️ slaughter, and 🏳️ tyranny (especially on his own people), which in themselves are terrifying enough. But, the damage dealt by communism goes far beyond this. It has become increasingly clear that, unlike any other system in history, communism declares war on humanity itself — including human values and human dignity. Communism turns the world into its church, bringing all aspects of social life under its purview. It occupies people's thoughts, causing them to revolt against the divine and discard tradition. It is the biggest and main perpetrator of normalizing degeneracy. This is how the devil leads man to his own destruction.

History

The ideas of Communism could be traced to come from various 🏳️ atheist and 🏳️ utopian philosophies from the 🏳️ Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th century. It was rooted in the radical 🏳️ Jacobinists' French Revolution and Reign of Terror. Communism in its modern sense was first termed by 🏳️ Victor D'Hupay in his book Projet de communauté philosophe published in 1777. But, communism proper isn't to form until a certain man with a large beard came along.

Marx, Engels and early Communism

Communism was officially formulated by 🏳️ Karl Marx and 🏳️ Friedrich Engels in 1848 through their release of the Communist Manifesto. Marx hated 🏳️ blacks and 🏳️ Jews, and was at least a 🏳️ Secular Satanist if not a 🏳️ real Satanist for his poems that praise Satan and his maid observing him preforming strange rituals.

During Marx's time, European society changed rapidly through mass 🏳️ Industrialism. It threw the continent into upheaval as people scrambled to adapt to the new reality amid technological shifts. Many could not keep up, leading to the polarization of haves and have-nots, economic crises, and the like. At the same time, as technology made it possible to transform the natural world on a large scale, humanity's arrogance grew. All this created ripe conditions for spreading Marx's views. He and others established the 🏳️ International Workingmen's Association (First International) in 1864, with Marx as the spiritual leader. Anyone who disagreed with Marx was banished.

Marx believed revolution was inevitable, and the workers (AKA "have-nots") of the 🏳️ world would rise up, destroy 🏳️ Capitalism create a communist 🏳️ utopia for themselves. To Marx and the communists, 🏳️ progress means the oppressed overthrowing the oppressors.

Paris Commune & Communist International

The first communist "government" would not materialize until 1871. The 🏳️ Paris Commune was formed after a humiliating defeat 🏳️ France took from 🏳️ Prussia a year earlier. The Paris Commune began rebellions in March, and seized power over 🏳️ Paris while burning the precious city all down. The Commune consisted of armed 🏳️ mobs and 🏳️ bandits from the lowest rung of society. A quarter of Paris was destroyed. Killing and destruction was on a mass scare as the rebels laid waste to countless exquisite relics, monuments and art.

The Commune lasted until until May when it was finally put down by the French military. On the 23rd, the Commune started fires that burned down countless important buildings so they won't fall into the hands of the French government. 🏳️ Marx thought positively about this, and quickly adjusted 🏳️ his theory, now stating the working class should completely destroy the state mechanism, rather than simply overtaking it.

After Marx’s death in 1883, 🏳️ Engels became the chief expositor of Marxist theory, which he simplified and in several respects transformed, making 🏳️ Marxism more rigid and 🏳️ deterministic than he had intended.

In theory, Communism preaches 🏳️ absolute egalitarianism, and in practice, it yielded 🏳️ dictatorial governments that had bestowed material wealth to the rulers and crushing poverty to the masses. Communist theory and the various ideological tracts penned by communist regimes are replete with promises to support and represent the interests of proletarian workers and peasants. But in practice, the working class is quickly betrayed and suffers the worst abuses.

After Engels's death in 1895, communism split into two main camps: 🏳️ revisionist Marxists, who favoured a gradual and 🏳️ peaceful transition to 🏳️ socialism and would thrive in the West, and 🏳️ revolutionary Marxists, who called for 🏳️ violence and would thrive in the East. The foremost revisionist was 🏳️ Eduard Bernstein, a leader of the 🏳️ Social Democratic Party of Germany, who fled 🏳️ his homeland in 1881 to avoid arrest and imprisonment under the 🏳️ antisocialist laws of Chancellor 🏳️ Otto von Bismarck. Orthodox Marxists branded Bernstein a bourgeois and a counterrevolutionary traitor to the cause.

On 14 July 1889, 6 years after 🏳️ Marx's death, 13 years after the dissolution of the 🏳️ First International, and 100 years after the French Revolution, the 🏳️ Second International would be formed. Communists rallied up once again.

Violence in the East, Subversion in the West

WWI, from 1914 to 1918, was the most deadly and brutal conflict yet. The new technologies of the early 20th century gave 🏳️ war a new face. It gave to many people a view that 🏳️ capitalist countries are all 🏳️ imperialist and don't care about their people and would send them out to war. As Europe underwent this radical change, opportunity would strike once again for the devil.

Lenin's New Russia

WWI led the Second International's member parties to abandon 🏳️ internationalist solidarity and side with their own 🏳️ national governments, shattering the illusion of a united workers' movement, which collapsed in 1916. But the effects of WWI on communism did more assist than damage. It was because of it that there came an opportunity for the exiled 🏳️ Lenin to return to a weakened 🏳️ Russia. With help from the 🏳️ German Empire hoping that Lenin can stir chaos so Russia leaves the Eastern Front, Lenin was shipped in a box like a dangerous plague. He became a prominent leader of the Russian Revolution (1917). The 🏳️ Tsar stepped down, and a 🏳️ provisional government was established. World War I has given triumph to communism in Russia.

Lenin built and retooled on 🏳️ Marx's theory because it failed. He figured that the "have-nots" weren't going to rise up by themselves, so they need to be led by 🏳️ elites who can radicalize them. This was why when the provisional government's 🏳️ elections didn't bring Lenin's 🏳️ far-left party to rule, he did the October Revolution on 7 November 1917, forcibly taking power and labeled the provisional government as the "enemy of the people". Never would Marx have thought that "backwards Russia" would become the first Communist state. 🏳️ Leninism was the ruling ideology. 🏳️ Mass terror was believed to be a necessary weapon in the 🏳️ dictatorship of the proletariat, and bad policies led to severe crackdowns.

🏳️ Leon Trotsky, another key figure in the communist revolution, developed the theory of "permanent revolution" or "perpetual revolution", where one oppressor is toppled, the new ruling class becomes the next oppressor. It never ends. By now, you probably noticed the term "oppressor" is just a label used by communists to refer to anyone who has life better than themselves, regardless of if they earned it or not. In their theory of 🏳️ Absolute Equality, everyone is the same, and should be rewarded the same regardless of their effort or sacrifices.

The USSR wasted no time in trying to export communist revolution to the world. In 1919, the 🏳️ Bolshevik Government instigated the creation of the 🏳️ Comintern (Third International). Throughout his existence, the Comintern would be dominated by the Kremlin despite his internationalist stance.

Its most successful attempt was in the far east, in a time when 🏳️ China was having an identity crisis. The 🏳️ Chinese Communist Pary would be founded in 1921 by 🏳️ Chen Duxiu as an Asian branch of the communist specter, with the Soviet as its head. For several years, the CCP was completely dependent on Soviet funding and served as an organ of the Soviet communist regime. The CCP continued to further Soviet interests in China for the next three decades. The communist specter invaded 🏳️ Mongolia while he was trying to shake free of Chinese control, and turned Mongolia into a communist 🏳️ puppet in 1924.

In 1924, Lenin died. 🏳️ Joseph Stalin took power and continued Lenin's work.

Long March Through the Institutions

While Communism was ruling through 🏳️ violence in the East, it was using a different approach to undermine traditional culture in the West. It was an 🏳️ nonviolent approach, but its ultimate goal is the same as it was in the 🏳️ Soviet Union or 🏳️ China: destroy 🏳️ tradition, destroy humanity's faith in the 😇 divine, and 🏳️ degenerate the human race to a point of no return. In the 1930s, 🏳️ Italian communist 🏳️ Antonio Gramsci wrote about the need for communists and 🏳️ socialists to fight a "war of position" to subvert Western society from within.

The 🏳️ Trotskyian ideology of the permanent revolution reformed itself in the West into the 🏳️ Frankfurt School. This form of communism noticed 🏳️ Capitalism's material success inoculated workers against revolution: after all, wasn't it always material prosperity that the communists have promised their people? So, it turned its sight on culture: education, media, churches, arts, and more. It was called the "Long March Through the Institutions". Communist thought was subtly implanted in various fields in Western society, most notably colleges. If they couldn't radicalize people economically, they'd do it socially, spiritually, slowly, generationally.

One of the many ways the devil of communism deceives is by making arrangements in the two opposing camps of the East and the West. As it carried out a vast invasion of the East, it also took on a new guise and stole into the West. The 🏳️ Fabian Society of 🏳️ Britain, the 🏳️ Social Democratic Party of 🇩🇪 Germany, the 🏳️ Second International of 🏳️ France, the 🏳️ Socialist Party in the 🏳️ United States, and many other 🏳️ socialist parties and organizations spread the seeds of destruction throughout Western Europe and North America. In the West, many view socialism and communism as being separate, which provides fertile ground for socialism to flourish. In fact, according to 🏳️ Marxist-Leninist theory, socialism is simply communism's preliminary stage. 🏳️ Historically, socialism has always been part of the international communist movement.

Tyranny of Stalin

🏳️ Lenin's death in 1924 left 🏳️ Joseph Stalin, 🏳️ Leon Trotsky, and 🏳️ Nikolay Bukharin as the leaders of the 🏳️ All-Russian Communist Party. Before he died, Lenin warned his party comrades to beware of Stalin's ambitions. The warning proved prophetic.

🏳️ Stalin took power in the 🏳️ USSR in 1924. Cunning and ruthless, his policies of 🏳️ Totalitarianism meant the death of anyone who Stalin suspected the slightest of disobedience, which caused massive rounds of executions within the communist rank. Under his leadership, people starved, and anyone who was critical of the regime was sent to gulags, which were torture and forced labor camps usually located deep in 🏳️ Siberia.

The ideology of the regime evolved from 🏳️ Leninism to 🏳️ Marxism-Leninism, and as a part of this, he abandoned some of the 🏳️ capitalist, market policies that had been allowed to continue under 🏳️ Lenin such as the 🏳️ New Economic Policy. Communism forced collectivization of the farms and forced collection of grains from the peasants in accordance with predecided targets. The 🏳️ All-Union Communist Party especially targeted kulaks, who owned a little land. Peasants who refused were starved in man-made famines, the most famous being the 🏳️ Kazakh famine of 1930-1933 and the 🏳️ Holodomor in 🏳️ Ukraine.

Another feature of Stalinism was his 🏳️ Cult of Personality. Whereas Lenin had claimed that the workers suffered from false consciousness and therefore needed a vanguard party to guide them, Stalin maintained that the Communist Party himself suffered from false consciousness (and from spies and traitors within his ranks) and therefore needed an all-wise leader (Stalin himself).

Stalin took control of the 🏳️ Comintern and introduced a policy in the international organization of opposing all leftists who were not Marxist–Leninists, labelling them to be 🏳️ social fascists. Other communists begged for 🏳️ leftist unity. In the early 1930s, Stalin reversed course and promoted popular front movements whereby communist parties would collaborate with 🏳️ socialists and other political forces. A high priority was mobilizing wide support for the 🏳️ Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

The Great Purge was a massive wave of purges, unsubstantiated trials, and executions of fellow communist men ordered by Stalin that mainly operated from December 1936 to November 1938. Under the communist system, no matter who you are, be it a so-called ally to the cause, you could still be accused. For the purpose of communism is to destroy mankind, and the paranoia of the devil will forever seek more people to accuse, to brainwash, to kill, to maintain power. Stalin systematically killed off the ranks from Lenin's era, replacing them with his own. Stalin did so usually under the justification that the accused were enemy spies or deemed "enemies of the people"; in the 🏳️ Red Army, a majority of generals were executed and hundreds of thousands of other "enemies of the people" were sent to the gulag, where inhumane conditions in Siberia led a quick death. The most famous killing was the accusation and assassination of the famous Red Army leader 🏳️ Leon Trotsky in 1938.

Spread of Communism, Iron Curtain, Eastern Bloc

Like WWI, WWII, from 1939 to 1945, has brought radical changes to the 🏳️ world. The 🏳️ Soviet communists, with their military success in Eastern Europe, was able to establish communist puppet regimes across the land after driving out the 🏳️ Nazis, replacing one monster with another. The 🏳️ Chinese communists took advantage of the war to grow their army, and thus, with Soviet backing, were able to take full control of China. There was also no serious opposition to 🏳️ Stalin as the 🏳️ NKVD secret police continued to send possible suspects to the gulag.

Relations with the 🏳️ United States and 🏳️ Britain went from 🏳️ friendly to hostile, as they denounced Stalin's political controls over eastern Europe and his blockade of 🏳️ Berlin. By 1947, the Cold War had begun. The Soviet communist puppet governments were blocked off from the West, creating an "iron curtain". Those behind the curtain was known as the "🏳️ Eastern Bloc", characterized by extreme censorship and oppression.

Exporting Revolution, Revisionism, and Mao Zedong's Red Asia

In 1949, after defeating the 🏳️ Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, Chairman 🏳️ Mao Zedong of the now 🏳️ communist China implemented his school of 🏳️ agrarian and 🏳️ anti-intellectual school of communism, known as 🏳️ Maoism. It wreaked havoc all across the land.

In early 1950, 🏳️ Stalin gave the go-ahead for 🏳️ North Korea's invasion of 🏳️ South Korea, expecting a short war. He was stunned when the 🏳️ Americans entered and defeated the North Koreans, putting them almost on the Soviet border. Stalin supported PR China's entry into the Korean War which drove the Americans back to the prewar boundaries, but which escalated tensions. The United States decided to mobilize his economy for a long contest with the Soviets, built the hydrogen bomb and strengthened the 🏳️ NATO alliance that covered 🏳️ Western Europe.

Since 🏳️ Stalin died in 1953, his successor 🏳️ Nikita Khrushchev began a process of de-Stalinization within the Soviet Union. He began making many 🏳️ reforms in the USSR and also began a policy that turned away from hardline 🏳️ Marxism-Leninism.

In 1955, communist 🏳️ North Vietnam, led by 🏳️ Ho Chi Minh, invaded his 🏳️ capitalist neighbour 🏳️ South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by his communist allies from the 🏳️ USSR and 🏳️ PRC.

Mao Zedong planned and oversaw several industrial and agricultural initiatives that proved disastrous for the Chinese people. Among the most important of these was the Great Leap Forward (1958-60), his version of Stalin's policy of rapid, forced 🏳️ industrialization. Aiming to produce steel in backyard blast furnaces and to manufacture other commodities in hastily erected small-scale factories, it was a spectacular failure that caused the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese, negatively impacting at least half the population.

Cuban Revolution

In 1959, communist 🏳️ Fidel Castro and his 🏳️ 26th of July Movement led a coup in 🏳️ Cuba and ousted 🏳️ Fulgencio Batista. By 1961, Castro formally declared Cuba a 🏳️ socialist state, aligning with USSR and adopting a 🏳️ one-party system under the 🏳️ Communist Party of Cuba. Political opposition was suppressed, independent media shut down, and thousands of Cubans fled the island — including many of those who had supported the revolution's early promise of 🏳️ democracy. Communism made everybody in Cuba equal, meaning that doctors were getting paid the same wage as taxi drivers, who sometimes makes more money than the latter because of tips. So, Cuba fell into a depressive state as all the important people in society ran off to someplace where their efforts would be properly rewarded.

The 🏳️ United States' response was highly negative, leading to a failed invasion attempt in 1961. In response, 🏳️ Soviet decided to station nuclear weapons in Cuba in 1962, causing the Cuban Missile Crisis, where there was serious fear of nuclear 🏳️ war for a few days. In the end a compromise was reached by which USSR publicly removed his weapons, and the United States secretly removed his weapons from bases in 🏳️ Türkiye and promised never to invade Cuba again.

Sino-Soviet Split

By the 1960s, one third of the world had overthrown 🏳️ capitalism and were trying to build communism. Most of these countries followed the model of the 🏳️ Soviet Union. Some followed the model of 🏳️ China. All were miserable failures.

The PRC was furious at USSR's 🏳️ revisionism after the death of 🏳️ Stalin in 1953, causing the Sino-Soviet split in 1961. This caused the 🏳️ communist bloc being split into two sides: one led by USSR, and the other led by PRC. The two competed for influence, exporting communism to many nations of Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

Eurocommunism

An important trend in several countries in Western Europe from the late 1960s into the 1980s was 🏳️ Eurocommunism, which was the strongest in 🏳️ Spain's 🏳️ PCE, 🏳️ Finland's 🏳️ SKP, and especially 🏳️ Italy's 🏳️ PCI. These parties drew on the degenerate ideas of 🏳️ Antonio Gramsci and was developed by communist party members who were disillusioned with both the 🏳️ Soviet Union and 🏳️ China and sought an independent program. They accepted 🏳️ liberal parliamentary democracy and 🏳️ free speech as well as even accepting with some conditions a 🏳️ capitalist market economy. They did not speak of the destruction of capitalism but sought to win the support of the masses and by a gradual transformation of the bureaucracies.

African Communism

See also: 🏳️ African Socialism

As Africa became 🏳️ decolonized in the 1960s, the communist spector took interest. 🏳️ USSR and 🏳️ PRC competed to see who could exert their influence more in the region, turning many independence movements communist, also hoping to create puppet states that would deny the West of economic and strategic resources. Soviet foreign policy with regard to Africa assumed that newly independent African governments would be receptive to communist ideology and that the Soviets would have the resources to make them attractive as development partners.

During the 1970s, the ruling parties of several sub-Saharan African states formally embraced communism, including the 🏳️ People's Republic of Benin, the 🏳️ People's Republic of Mozambique, the 🏳️ People's Republic of the Congo, the 🏳️ People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and the 🇦🇴 People's Republic of Angola. Most of these regimes ensured the selective adoption and flexible application of communist theory set against a broad ideological commitment to 🏳️ Marxism or 🏳️ Leninism. The adoption of communism was often seen as a means to an end and used to justify the 🏳️ extreme centralization of power.

Rancid Hypermaoism

The 🏳️ Chinese communists launched the 🏳️ Cultural Revolution 🏳️ in 1966. It was a bloodthirsty craze that destroyed countless cultural relics, traditions, and lives, all in the name of the communist revolution. It was the most direct and brutal implementation of 🏳️ violent class struggle. The movement paralyzed China politically and weakened the country economically, culturally and 🏳️ intellectually for years. Millions of people were accused, humiliated, imprisoned, killed, publicly executed, or sent to work as farm laborers. This upheaval caused widespread persecution, economic stagnation, and millions of deaths, with total Mao-era mortality estimates ranging from 40-80 million due to starvation, executions, and forced labor.

The 🏳️ PRC made the exporting of revolution a cornerstone of his foreign policy. In addition to providing financial support, training, and weapons for far-left 🏳️ insurrections, the PRC sometimes sent troops to directly assist guerrilla fighters against legitimate governments. In fact, by 1973 (during the Cultural Revolution), PRC foreign aid spending peaked at nearly 7 percent of the national budget.

Communism spread throughout Asia via communist China. In 1975, 🏳️ South Vietnam was capitulated and all of Vietnam fell into communist hands. It has been estimated that between 2 and 3 million deaths occurred after the fall of 🏳️ Saigon, in compliance with 🏳️ Ho Chi Minh's instructions. The same year, 🏳️ Pol Pot's 🏳️ Democratic Kampuchea took over 🏳️ Cambodia and turned the country into literally hell on 🏳️ Earth. Under Pol Pot's rule, 25% of the entire population suffered unnatural deaths directly from his policies. It was similar to PRC's Cultural Revolution, but even worse and even more schizophrenic. Many innocent people were sent to the killing fields just because they wore glasses and spoke foreign languages.

West's Romanticization of Communism

During the Cold War, many 🏳️ intellectuals, 🏳️ artists, 🏳️ journalists, 🏳️ politicians, and young students from the free world went to 🏳️ Russia, 🏳️ China, or 🏳️ Cuba as tourists and travelers. What they saw, or rather were allowed to see, was completely different from the lived reality of the people of those countries. Communist countries have perfected their deception of foreigners: everything the foreign visitors saw was carefully crafted for their tastes, including the model villages, factories, schools, hospitals, daycare centers, and prisons. The receptionists they encountered were members of the ruling Communist Party or others considered politically reliable. The tours were rehearsed, the visitors were greeted with flowers, wine, dancing and singing, banquets, and smiling young children and officials. Then they were taken to see people hard at work, able to talk freely and as equals; students studying hard; and lovely weddings. What they didn't get to see were the show trials, mass sentencings, 🏳️ mob lynchings, struggle sessions, kidnappings, brainwashing, solitary confinement, 🏳️ forced labor camps, 🏳️ massacres, 🏳️ theft of land and property, famines, shortages of public services, lack of privacy, eavesdropping, surveillance, monitoring by neighbors and informants everywhere, brutal political struggles in the leadership, and 🏳️ extravagant luxuries of the communist 🏳️ elite. They especially weren't able to see the suffering of ordinary people.

The visitors mistook what had been staged for them as the norm in a communist country. They then promoted communism in the West through books, articles, and speeches, and many of them didn't know they had been taken in. A small number did see cracks in the edifice, but many of them then fell into another trap: they saw themselves as "fellow travelers" and adopted the attitude of "not airing dirty laundry in front of outsiders". The slaughter, famine, and 🏳️ suppression of communist countries, they reasoned, were simply part of the cost of transitioning to communism. They were confident that while the path to communism was crooked, the future was bright. They refused to tell the truth, because that would be blackening the name of the "🏳️ socialist project". Lacking the courage to tell the truth, they chose a shameful silence.

Reformations for Survival

After decades of hardcore communism, the two major communist powers that is 🏳️ USSR and 🏳️ China both had to implement 🏳️ capitalistic reforms in order to save themselves from their collapsing economies.

🏳️ Mao Zedong died in 1976, his policies leaving 🏳️ China in a critical condition. 🏳️ Deng Xiaoping took power behind the scenes, and implemented 🏳️ capitalistic reforms and policies to prevent the PRC from total collapse and to "get some people rich first". These policies are known as "🏳️ Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", which is basically just 🏳️ cronyism.

In 1985, 🏳️ Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in the 🏳️ Soviet Union and began policies of radical political reform involving political 🏳️ liberalization called perestroika and glasnost. Gorbachev's policies were designed to dismantle the 🏳️ authoritarian elements of the state that were developed by Stalin, aiming to restore the supposed ideal 🏳️ Leninist state and retaining a 🏳️ one-party structure but allowing the 🏳️ democratic election of competing candidates to political office within the party. Gorbachev also aimed to restore 🏳️ détente with the West and he also aimed to end the Cold War that was being waged by the Soviet Union because it was no longer economically sustainable.

Decay & Fall of the Eastern Communist Bloc

For much of the 20th century, about one-third of the 🏳️ world's population lived under 🏳️ communist regimes. These regimes were characterized by the 🏳️ rule of a single party that tolerated no 🏳️ opposition and little dissent. Instead of a 🏳️ capitalist economy in which people can compete for profits, party leaders established a command economy in which the state controlled property and its bureaucrats determined wages, prices, and production goals. This insufficiency is one of the factors that drove the majority of communist states to extinction.

Social resistance to the policies of communist regimes in Eastern Europe accelerated in strength with the rise of the 🏳️ Solidarity, the first non-communist controlled trade union in the 🏳️ Warsaw Pact that was formed in the 🏳️ Polish People's Republic in 1980.

In 1989, revolts began across 🏳️ Eastern Europe and 🏳️ China against communist regimes. In China, the 🏳️ government refused to negotiate with 📢 student protestors and massacred them while they were at Tiananmen Square. The Eastern Europeans were more lucky, as 🏳️ Berlin Wall fell that year, uniting the communist 🏳️ East Germany to the 🏳️ West. People cheered and poured over the wall. This was a significant blow to the communist bloc. More and more of Soviet's communist satellite states began breaking away and declaring freedom.

Meanwhile, the 🏳️ Eurocommunist movement in Western Europe that had faded in the 1980s collapsed with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.

In 1991, the impossible happened: the great superpower USSR has fallen. One by one the republics declared their independence. Out of the Soviet corpse, there arose 15 new nations ready to start their future without communism.

Contemporary Communism

The collapse of the communist regimes in the 🏳️ Soviet Union and 🏳️ Eastern Europe in 1991 marked the end of a half-century-long Cold War between the 🏳️ capitalist and communist camps in the East and West. Many were thus 🏳️ optimistic, holding the belief that communism had become a relic of the past. The sad truth, however, is that a transmogrified communist ideology has instead taken hold and entrenched itself around the 🏳️ world. There are the last remaining outright communist regimes like 🏳️ China, 🏳️ North Korea, 🏳️ Cuba, 🏳️ Laos and 🏳️ Vietnam; there are the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, where communist ideology, nostalgia and customs still exert a significant influence; there are the African and South American countries, which attempt 🏳️ socialism under the banner of 🏳️ democracy and 🏳️ republicanism—and then there are the nations of Europe and North America, whose body politics have become host to communist influences, without people even realizing it. To this day, there are numerous Westerners who harbor romantic fantasies about communism, yet they've never lived in a communist country and borne the suffering there, and thus have no understanding of what communism actually means in practice.

🏳️ China's communism has become something unrecognizable today. Since the 📢 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre of 1989, there had been a "money craze" where everyone cared about nothing but money due to the change of policies as to the result of political reshuffling within the 🏳️ CCP. Many would say that economically, and seeing the enormous class differences, China has turned full 🏳️ capitalist. However, back in the 🏳️ Mao era where everyone was 🏳️ absolutely equal class differences still existed. At least in capitalism workers get paid a fair wage, injury benefits among others, while these are absent in China. It seems like China is living through a real version of the false idea of capitalism that 🏳️ Marx painted in his writings.

After losing Soviet subsidies and support, Vietnam and Cuba have attracted more foreign investment to their countries, with their economies becoming more market-oriented. North Korea, the last communist country that still practices Soviet-style communism, is both 🏳️ repressive and 🏳️ isolationist. In 🏳️ Nepal, communist guerrillas got elected 🏳️ democratically in 2008 and remained the major ruling party before being overthrown in 2025.

Western New Left: Neo-Marxism in Drag

Communist ideology did not fade into 🏳️ history at the end of the Cold War. In fact, the 🏳️ Soviet infiltration and subversion of the free world during that period was way more successful than he could have ever hoped. In essence, the same underlying philosophy lies behind the "🏳️ Western New Left" and "traditional" communist regimes.

There was the 🏳️ Post-Modernists, who declared that power doesn't just exist between the rich and poor, it exists everywhere. Between 🏳️ man and 🏳️ women, 🏳️ white and 🏳️ black, fit and 🏳️ fat, you name it. All relationships became power struggles, and the personal became the political.

Then emerged 🏳️ Intersectionality, who claimed that oppression isn't one dimensional and instead a matrix, with every identity adding a layer of victimhood and privilege. The 🏳️ modern progressives are really just 🏳️ neo-Marxism in drag.

One of the most famous movement in spreading communism in the modern West would be 🏳️ Antifa, a radical 🏳️ anarchist and 🏳️ Marxist street militia that solidified around the year 2016. Antifa is known for targeting violent attacks against 🏳️ moderates and 🏳️ rightists while pushing for their communist ideology, often using common buzzwords such as "🏳️ fascist" and "bigot" to label their opponents, a strategy many other far-left groups in the West have taken on to use.

Beliefs

Communism wants to dismantle class hierarchies and traditional authority in pursuit of 🏳️ radical equality. To enforce this, communist regimes relied on propaganda, censorship, political imprisonment and the destruction of cultural identity.

There are many, many variants of the Communist ideology. Just as the devil goes by many names, communism manifests in many ways. The demon uses contradictory positions to deceive: be it for a 🏳️ totalitarian regime or a 🏳️ democracy, a 🏳️ planned economy or a 🏳️ market economy, 🏳️ control of the press or 🏳️ no restraints whatsoever, 🏳️ opposition to homosexuality in some countries or legalization of 🏳️ homosexuality in other countries, wanton 🏳️ environmental destruction or clamor for 🏳️ environmental protection, and so on. They all have different views on specific issues, and thus to pinpoint their stance as a whole can be difficult. For example, most orthodox communists want an 🏳️ authoritarian state, but 🏳️ Anarcho-Communism does not. Most communists despise 🏳️ tradition, but the Specter has mutated itself into so-called 🏳️ Conservative Socialism, 🏳️ Religious Socialism and more the like. It has adapted itself to fit into what is most convenient and to deceive people on their soft spots, but its ultimate goal has been and will always be the same.

Communism is inherently against everything the heavens made this 🏳️ world to be. Traditional laws come from 🏳️ morality and are intended to uphold it. Communism tries to separate morality from the law, then destroy morality by concocting 🏳️ malicious new laws and subjecting existing law to twisted interpretations. The divine calls upon man to be 🏳️ kind; communism incites class struggle and advocates 🏳️ violence and 🏳️ killing. The divine established the 🏳️ family as the basic social unit; communism believes that the family is a manifestation of 🏳️ private property and 🏳️ capitalism, and aims to eliminate it. The divine gives man the freedom to obtain wealth and the right to improve his lot in life; communism seeks to control all aspects of economic life by eliminating private property, expropriating assets, raising taxes, and monopolizing credit and capital.

The divine established the forms that morality, government, law, society, and culture should take; communism seeks the violent overthrow of existing social structures.

Heaven on Earth

The "heaven on earth" is communism's biggest lie. Communism uses its program of creating a "paradise" on earth to promote an 🏳️ atheistic conception of "🏳️ social progress". It uses 🏳️ materialism to undermine the spiritual pursuits of mankind in order to enable the communist ideology to spread to every sphere, including not only social studies and philosophy but even natural sciences and 🏳️ religious teaching. Like a malignant tumor, communism metastasizes, eliminating other beliefs — including the 🏳️ belief in the divine — as it spreads. In turn, it destroys 🏳️ national sovereignty and identity, and humanity's 🏳️ moral and 🏳️ cultural traditions, thus leading man to destruction. In The Communist Manifesto, 🏳️ Marx proclaimed, "The 🏳️ communist revolution is the most radical rupture with 🏳️ traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with 🏳️ traditional ideas." Marx thus accurately summarized the practice of communism over the past two centuries.

Quotes

A 🏳️ Spector is haunting 🏳️ Europe — the Spector of Communism.
🏳️ Karl Marx
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all 🏳️ private property.
🏳️ Karl Marx
The 🏳️ history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
🏳️ Karl Marx
We have 🏳️ no compassion and we ask no 🏳️ compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the 🏳️ terror.
🏳️ Karl Marx & 🏳️ Friedrich Engels
There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified, and concentrated, and that way is 🏳️ revolutionary terror.
🏳️ Karl Marx
The goal of 🏳️ socialism is communism.
🏳️ Vladimir Lenin
We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat. Our morality stems from the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat.
🏳️ Vladimir Lenin
When we hang the 🏳️ capitalists, they will sell us the rope we use.
🏳️ Joseph Stalin
Communism was not 🏳️ love. Communism was a 🏳️ hammer which we used to crush the enemy.
🏳️ Mao Zedong
A revolution is not a 🏳️ dinner party, or 🏳️ writing an essay, or 🏳️ painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, 🏳️ kind, courteous, 🏳️ restrained, and magnanimous. A revolution is an 🏳️ insurrection, an act of 🏳️ violence by which one class overthrows another.
🏳️ Mao Zedong


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Comrades

  • 🏳️ Socialism - The path to liberation!
  • 🏳️ Marxism - My main branch!
  • 🏳️ Marxism-Leninism - My first successful revolution!
  • 🏳️ Maoism - An 🏳️ agrarian branch of me that carry my ideals out so well!
  • 🏳️ National Communism - Integrating a country's culture and equating it with communism is great propaganda! But 🏳️ Marx thinks that in the end we still need to abolish the sense of a "🏳️ nation".
  • 🏳️ Anarcho-Totalitarianism - Both? Both is good, as long as degeneracy is practiced and enforced.
  • 🏳️ Frankfurt School - Destroy 🏳️ traditional culture!
  • 🏳️ Western New Left - Never would I have dreamt of the success I got in the West! Your ideals of destruction is perfect. After all, why shouldn't we establish communist breakaway states and wreak havoc on society? Real communism has never been tried!

Frenemies

  • 🏳️ Anti-Authoritarianism - If there are protests in the First World; long live the people's revolution! If there are protests in other places, it's a 🏳️ CIA-backed colour revolution!
  • 🏳️ LGBT Movement - You make a great tool for destroying the 🏳️ family, but I don't actually care about your rights.

Class Enemies

  • 🏳️ Capitalism - THE WORST OPPRESSOR!!! You exploit the poor by not handing your business to them, even though they are your customers and help your business! Your success is preventing the workers from rising up against you, that is very frustrating. How dare someone have life better than me!
  • 🏳️ Fascism - The reaction to oppose me. You stole my aesthetics, my 🏳️ one-party state model, my mass rallies, and even my planned economy—then called me your enemy! The nerve.
  • 🏳️ Feudalism - Backwards phase of humanity!
  • 🏳️ Theism - You and your foolish backward mind. 🏳️ Materialism is all there is! You are the opium of the people! There has never been a savior, there has never been a creator! If we want to find prosperity, we must fight, we must struggle till the end! For the people of course, even though they suffer the most of it…
  • 🏳️ McCarthyism - Oh, the red devil isn't coming for you… it's already here.

How to draw

Hammer and sickle

Communism has a drawing rating of intermediate.

  1. Draw a ball.
  2. Fill it with dark red.
  3. In it, draw a slanted hammer with its metal part facing left, in red
  4. Draw a sickle with its outward curve facing down across the hammer, its handle in the bottom left
  5. Add eyes and done.
Color Name HEX
Red #CD0000
Dark Red #560000