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The 49 pages that link to Communism, each with the reason it gives.

• Karl MarxRelated: Marx and Engels presented communism as the movement seeking to overcome capitalist class relations.

• MarxismNarrower topic: Marxism has been a major theoretical foundation for communist movements and visions.

• Social democracyCompared with: Social democrats reject one-party rule and revolutionary seizure as necessary routes to equality.

• SocialismRelated: Many socialist traditions treat communism as a possible endpoint, while others reject that framework.

• CapitalismCompared with: Communism proposes a classless alternative to ownership and production organized around capital.

• FascismCompared with: Fascists defined themselves against Marxist class politics and violently attacked communist organizations.

• The Communist ManifestoNarrower topic: The pamphlet presents communism as a movement and political project rooted in workers’ struggle.

• Interwar periodCompared with: Communist movements offered an alternative to both capitalism and fascism.

• Pablo NerudaRelated: Neruda’s Communist commitments shaped his public poetry, political activity, and historical vision.

• Ba'athismCompared with: Ba'athism adopted socialist reforms while rejecting class struggle as its primary political framework.

• Dictatorship of the proletariatNarrower topic: The transitional order is defined by its claimed movement toward this society.

• Anarchist communismNarrower topic: Anarchist communism shares communism’s commitment to common ownership, while rejecting a transitional state.

• André GideRelated: Gide briefly supported communism, then publicly criticized the Soviet Union after visiting it.

• Brazilian Communist PartyNarrower topic: The party’s original identity and program drew on communist theory.

• Michel AflaqCompared with: Aflaq’s movement rejected communist internationalism and class struggle as substitutes for Arab national unity.

• NazismCompared with: Nazism defined communism as an existential enemy and rejected its internationalist, class-based politics.

• Kim PhilbyRelated: Philby’s youthful commitment to communism helped make him receptive to Soviet recruitment.

• National SocialismCompared with: Nazi propaganda treated communism as an existential enemy, despite their distinct ideologies.

• André MalrauxRelated: Malraux joined the French Communist Party and engaged with revolutionary politics before breaking with it.

• Anti-fascismCompared with: Communists have been influential in anti-fascist movements, but anti-fascism includes noncommunist currents.

• State atheismNarrower topic: Several communist governments treated religious institutions as competitors to party authority and socialist education.

• BourgeoisieCompared with: Communism would abolish the ownership relation that constitutes the bourgeoisie as a class.

• Islamic socialismCompared with: Islamic socialists may support redistribution while rejecting communist atheism or comprehensive abolition of private property.

• CommunalismCompared with: Communism is a broad ideological project, while communalism can describe localized arrangements without that program.

• Post-communismNarrower topic: Post-communist orders are defined historically by their departure from communist rule.

• Catholic Worker MovementCompared with: Day and Maurin criticized capitalism without adopting communist party organization or revolutionary state power.

• Detroit Industry MuralsCompared with: Rivera’s leftist politics helped fuel objections to the murals’ sympathetic depiction of workers.

• Louis BlancCompared with: Blanc’s reformist, state-led program differed from later revolutionary communist theories.

• Russian revolutionary movementNarrower topic: Russian revolutionaries helped make communist politics a governing project with global influence.

• Scientific socialismBroader topic: It is the classless outcome that Marx and Engels associated with socialism’s historical development.

• Arthur KoestlerNarrower topic: Koestler joined the Communist Party before breaking with it and making its politics a central subject.

• Guy BurgessRelated: Burgess’s commitment to communism helped make Soviet recruitment attractive to him.

• Juan José ArévaloCompared with: Arévalo rejected the label of communism for his reforms, despite conservative accusations to the contrary.

• Stephen SpenderRelated: Spender briefly joined the Communist Party of Great Britain before leaving it in 1939.

• Alain BadiouRelated: Badiou treats the communist hypothesis as a name for emancipatory political truth.

• Third International TheoryCompared with: Gaddafi presented his system as distinct from communist state and party models.

• Centre-left politicsCompared with: Its revolutionary and anti-capitalist traditions differ from centre-left commitment to gradual reform and regulated markets.

• François-Noël BabeufNarrower topic: Babeuf’s program is often regarded as an early precursor to communist politics.

• Hammer and sickleNarrower topic: The emblem became one of communism’s most recognizable visual signs.

• Nâzım HikmetRelated: Marxist commitments shaped Hikmet’s political verse and brought repeated conflict with Turkish authorities.

• Tamara BunkeNarrower topic: Bunke’s revolutionary commitment developed within communist institutions and ideology.

• Aleksandr DuginCompared with: Dugin treats communism as another modern political theory to supersede, despite drawing on Soviet symbols and alliances.

• History of socialismCompared with: Its relationship to socialism shifted as revolutionary parties claimed exclusive authority to build a socialist order.

• Left communismNarrower topic: Left communism argues over what genuine communist transformation requires.

• Marxist philosophyRelated: Marxist theory presents communism as a possible outcome of overcoming class divisions.

• New PhilosophersRelated: The New Philosophers attacked communist regimes while rejecting the ideology used to justify them.

• Prabhat Ranjan SarkarCompared with: Sarkar criticized centralized communist states while proposing decentralized planning.

• Scientific communismBroader topic: It is the eventual social order scientific communism predicts.

• Second WorldNarrower topic: Communist parties governed most states identified as the Second World.