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Do not fill this in! === Post-Soviet communism === {{see also|List of socialist parties with national parliamentary representation}}[[File:Communist flag at night at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, year 2024.jpg|thumb|Communist flag at night at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, year 2024]] [[File:Communist Party of Vietnam Poster in Hanoi.jpg|thumb|A poster of the [[Communist Party of Vietnam]] in Hanoi]] As of 2023, states controlled by Marxist–Leninist parties under a single-party system include the People's Republic of China, the [[Republic of Cuba]], the [[Lao People's Democratic Republic]], and the [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam]].{{refn|group=note|name=NKorea}} Communist parties, or their descendant parties, remain politically important in several other countries. With the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] and the [[Fall of Communism]], there was a split between those hardline Communists, sometimes referred to in the media as ''[[neo-Stalinist]]s'', who remained committed to orthodox [[Marxism–Leninism]], and those, such as [[The Left (Germany)|The Left]] in Germany, who work within the liberal-democratic process for a democratic road to socialism;<ref>{{cite book |last=Sargent |first=Lyman Tower |year=2008 |title=Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis |url=https://archive.org/details/contemporarypoli00sarg_989 |url-access=limited |edition=14th |publisher=[[Wadsworth Publishing]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/contemporarypoli00sarg_989/page/n135 117] |isbn=9780495569398 |quote=Because many communists now call themselves democratic socialists, it is sometimes difficult to know what a political label really means. As a result, social democratic has become a common new label for democratic socialist political parties.}}</ref> other ruling Communist parties became closer to [[democratic socialist]] and [[social-democratic]] parties.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lamb |first=Peter |year=2015 |title=Historical Dictionary of Socialism |edition=3rd |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |page=415 |isbn=9781442258266 |quote=In the 1990s, following the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the breakup of the Soviet Union, social democracy was adopted by some of the old communist parties. Hence, parties such as the Czech Social Democratic Party, the Bulgarian Social Democrats, the Estonian Social Democratic Party, and the Romanian Social Democratic Party, among others, achieved varying degrees of electoral success. Similar processes took place in Africa as the old communist parties were transformed into social democratic ones, even though they retained their traditional titles ... .}}</ref> Outside Communist states, reformed Communist parties have led or been part of left-leaning government or regional coalitions, including in the former Eastern Bloc. In Nepal, Communists ([[CPN UML]] and [[Nepal Communist Party]]) were part of the [[1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly]], which abolished the monarchy in 2008 and turned the country into a federal liberal-democratic republic, and have democratically shared power with other communists, Marxist–Leninists, and [[Maoists]] ([[CPN Maoist]]), social democrats ([[Nepali Congress]]), and others as part of their [[People's Multiparty Democracy]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11057207&fsrc=nwl |title=Nepal's election The Maoists triumph |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=17 April 2008 |access-date=18 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214103506/http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11057207&fsrc=nwl |archive-date=14 February 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bhattarai |first=Kamal Dev |date=21 February 2018 |url=https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/the-rebirth-of-the-nepal-communist-party/ |title=The (Re)Birth of the Nepal Communist Party |work=[[The Diplomat]] |access-date=29 November 2020}}</ref> The [[Communist Party of the Russian Federation]] has some supporters, but is reformist rather than revolutionary, aiming to lessen the inequalities of Russia's market economy.<ref name="Ball & Dagger 2019" /> [[Chinese economic reforms]] were started in 1978 under the leadership of [[Deng Xiaoping]], and since then China has managed to bring down the poverty rate from 53% in the Mao era to just 8% in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ravallion |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Ravallion |date=2005 |url=http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0%2C%2CcontentMDK%3A20634060~pagePK%3A64165401~piPK%3A64165026~theSitePK%3A469382%2C00.html |title=Fighting Poverty: Findings and Lessons from China's Success |publisher=[[World Bank]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301071146/http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0%2C%2CcontentMDK%3A20634060~pagePK%3A64165401~piPK%3A64165026~theSitePK%3A469382%2C00.html |archive-date=1 March 2018 |access-date=10 August 2006}}</ref> After losing Soviet subsidies and support, Vietnam and Cuba have attracted more foreign investment to their countries, with their economies becoming more market-oriented.<ref name="Ball & Dagger 2019" /> North Korea, the last Communist country that still practices Soviet-style Communism, is both repressive and isolationist.<ref name="Ball & Dagger 2019" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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