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- revolutionary socialism based on the theories
- of the political philosophers Karl Marx and
- Friedrich Engels, emphasizing common
- ownership of the means of production and a
- planned economy. The principle held is that
- each should work according to his or her
- capacity and receive according to his or her
- needs. Politically, it seeks the overthrow of
- capitalism through a proletarian revolution.
- The first communist state was the USSR after
- the revolution of 1917. Revolutionary
- socialist parties and groups united to form
- communist parties in other countries during
- the interwar years. After World War II,
- communism was enforced in those countries
- that came under Soviet occupation. China
- emerged after 1961 as a rival to the USSR in
- world communist leadership, and other
- countries attempted to adapt communism to
- their own needs.
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