Marxism
A broad socialist tradition centered on dialectical materialism, historical materialism, exploitation, and working-class self-emancipation.
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Marxism-Leninism
Named after Vladimir Lenin's development of Marxist theory, emphasizing the vanguard party, democratic centralism, and dictatorship of the proletariat.
Read more →Maoism
Also called MLM by its supporters, highlighting anti-imperialism, protracted people's war, and continuous class struggle under socialism.
Read more →Democratic Socialism
A strategy focused on pursuing socialism through electoral struggle, democratic institutions, and policy transformation.
Read more →Social Democracy
A reformist current associated with welfare-state policies, labor protections, and public services within capitalism.
Read more →Market Socialism
A socialist framework that preserves public political control while allowing a limited private sector under specific conditions.
Read more →Mutualism / Anarcho-Socialism
A socialist anti-state current tracing debates from Proudhon’s mutualism to Bakunin’s revolutionary anarchism.
Read more →Anarcho-Syndicalism
A strategy centered on horizontal labor unions, direct action, and workers building alternative power structures.
Read more →Eco-Anarchism
Also called social ecology, linking environmental crisis to hierarchy, class domination, and state power.
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