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Founding leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924 (1870–1924)
A variety of news outlets and advocacy groups have recorded Candace Owens using explicit phrases about Jewish people, Israel and antisemitism including defenses of Kanye West’s antisemitic tweets, ass...
Socialism and communism share roots in 19th‑century critiques of industrial capitalism and overlap in seeking greater public control of the means of production, but they are ideological constructs wit...
Socialist movements have repeatedly produced very different outcomes: some democratic, welfare-oriented systems in Western Europe and social-democratic reforms, and a number of 20th‑century revolution...
Joseph Stalin presided over a one-party, communist dictatorship—commonly described as Stalinism—marked by centralized party control, state ownership of the economy, and pervasive political repression ...
Debate over “Does socialism work?” is alive and polarized: recent U.S. politics show Congress formally denouncing socialism (H.Con.Res.58 passed 285–98) while polls and campus politics show growing sy...
Antarctica does host human-made monuments and a few unexpected statues — most famously a plastic bust of Vladimir Lenin at the Soviet “Pole of Inaccessibility” station placed in 1958 and still reporte...
Lenin did not coin the English phrase “democratic socialist.” Historical and secondary-source analyses show the term and its antecedents predate Lenin, and Lenin himself more often used or critiqued *...
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...
Marxism–Leninism as an ideology calls for a proletarian dictatorship, suppression of counter‑revolution and repression of “classes deemed hostile,” which in practice has included forcible elimination ...
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...
Defenders of Marxist theory argue vigorously that the catastrophic outcomes of 20th‑century regimes—most notably Stalinist and Leninist states—reflect political distortions, contingencies, or “Marxism...
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...
Stalin’s Soviet Union showcased a mix of rapid industrial growth and severe political repression that critics say exposed systemic weaknesses of state‑led communism: mass purges, collectivization‑link...
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...
Socialists — especially those who use labels like “democratic socialism” — often pair socialism with the language of democracy to signal commitment to elections, civil liberties and popular control of...