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Single party from Lenin to Gorbachev that ruled the USSR with a power monopoly, democratic centralism and a planned economy. It imposed collectivization, Stalinist terror, state atheism and the Cold War until banned in 1991.
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Leans further toward irreligious than 97% of the 159 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
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Revolutionary branch of Marxism that advocates the seizure of power by a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, with a planned economy and collectivization, serving as the foundation of the communist regimes of the 20th century.
System in which the state controls the means of production and directs the economy through central planning, promoting industrialization and welfare under strong political authority and limited popular democratic participation.
Soviet model consolidated by Stalin, marked by accelerated industrialization, agricultural collectivization, rigid central planning, personalized leadership and mass political repression.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian28%
Argentine revolutionary who led guerrilla warfare alongside Fidel Castro in Cuba, advocating armed struggle and revolutionary internationalism. A Cuban minister, he died trying to export revolution to Bolivia, becoming a global icon of the radical left.
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Single party of China under Mao Zedong, from 1949 to 1976. It imposed collectivization, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, permanent class struggle and a leader cult, with state atheism, a split with the USSR and the atomic bomb.
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