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Communism is classed on the far left because its core theory aims to abolish private property and create economic equality through collective ownership and the suppression of market capitalism, while ...
Mahmood Mamdani cannot be cleanly labeled a doctrinaire Marxist scholar; his work shows , yet he also synthesizes postcolonial, anthropological, and historical approaches in ways that resist a single ...
Socialism is a broad political-economic family that ranges from democratic, mixed-economy models to revolutionary visions of communal ownership; . The practical difference is that socialism can coexis...
Mahmood Mamdani is a prominent scholar of colonialism, postcolonial violence and political identity whose work engages Marxist categories among many other theoretical tools, but he is not straightforw...
If a society truly became classless or reached Marx’s final stage of communism, classical sources say the state and separate national executive or legislature would “wither away” and political functio...
The Paris Commune (March–May 1871) was a short-lived, radical municipal government that seized Paris after the Franco‑Prussian defeat and the National Government’s retreat to Versailles; it lasted abo...
A communist revolution in the United States faces major structural, cultural, and political obstacles but is not treated as impossible by active U.S. communist organizations; proponents point to risin...
Capitalism as a set of institutions and incentives has demonstrable mechanisms that have contributed to death and suffering—through environmental degradation, workplace exploitation, and unequal acces...
The blanket claim that “communism and socialism has never worked” is too sweeping: no nation has achieved the classless, moneyless communist end-state described by Marx, but various forms of socialism...
Cleon Skousen’s “45 Goals” originate in his 1958 book The Naked Communist and were later entered into the Congressional Record in 1963, but they are Skousen’s synthesis and not a verbatim product of a...
The Nazis labeled modernist and politically oppositional culture “degenerate” (Entartete Kunst) and “un‑German,” seizing roughly thousands to tens of thousands of works and staging the 1937 Degenerate...
As of 2025, five countries are widely identified as constitutionally one‑party socialist states led by communist parties: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam (commonly listed as the world’s re...
The available sources do not directly address the specific Factually.co article you asked about; instead, they offer competing narratives about communism’s historical outcomes: official U.S. messaging...
Multiple prominent U.S. civil‑rights figures had documented affinities with socialism or Marxist thought, though the record varies on whether they publicly "described themselves" using those exact lab...
Communist theory envisions a final stage of human social development in which classes, private ownership of the means of production, money and the state itself no longer exist; Marx and major referenc...
Michel’s purported “links with socialism” appear as several distinct claims across the materials: an intellectual connection between Michel Foucault and Marxist/socialist thought, organizational or po...