Communism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Associated usage and Communist states === In the United States, ''communism'' is widely used as a pejorative term as part of a [[Red Scare]], much like ''socialism'', and mainly in reference to [[authoritarian socialism]] and [[Communist state]]s. The emergence of the [[Soviet Union]] as the world's first nominally Communist state led to the term's widespread association with [[Marxism–Leninism]] and the [[Soviet-type economic planning]] model.{{r|Ball & Dagger 2019}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Busky |first=Donald F. |title=Democratic Socialism: A Global Survey |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Praeger]] |location=Santa Barbara, California |date=2000 |isbn=978-0-275-96886-1 |pages=6–8 |quote=In a modern sense of the word, communism refers to the ideology of Marxism–Leninism. ... [T]he adjective democratic is added by democratic socialists to attempt to distinguish themselves from Communists who also call themselves socialists. All but communists, or more accurately, Marxist–Leninists, believe that modern-day communism is highly undemocratic and totalitarian in practice, and democratic socialists wish to emphasise by their name that they disagree strongly with the Marxist–Leninist brand of socialism.}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Communism |encyclopedia=The [[Columbia Encyclopedia]] |edition=6th |year=2007}}</ref> In his essay "Judging Nazism and Communism",<ref>{{cite journal |last=Malia |first=Martin |author-link=Martin Malia |date=Fall 2002 |title=Judging Nazism and Communism |journal=The National Interest |publisher=Center for the National Interest |issue=69 |pages=63–78 |jstor=42895560}}</ref> [[Martin Malia]] defines a "generic Communism" category as any Communist [[political party]] movement led by [[intellectual]]s; this [[umbrella term]] allows grouping together such different [[regime]]s as radical [[Soviet]] industrialism and the [[Khmer Rouge]]'s anti-urbanism.{{r|David-Fox 2004}} According to [[Alexander Dallin]], the idea to group together different countries, such as [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] and [[Hungarian People's Republic|Hungary]], has no adequate explanation.{{r|Dallin 2000}} While the term ''Communist state'' is used by Western historians, political scientists, and news media to refer to countries ruled by Communist parties, these [[socialist states]] themselves did not describe themselves as communist or claim to have achieved communism; they referred to themselves as being a socialist state that is in the process of constructing communism.<ref>{{harvp|Wilczynski|2008|p=21}}; {{harvp|Steele|1992|p=45}}: "Among Western journalists the term 'Communist' came to refer exclusively to regimes and movements associated with the Communist International and its offspring: regimes which insisted that they were not communist but socialist, and movements which were barely communist in any sense at all."; {{harvp|Rosser|Barkley|2003|p=14}}; {{harvp|Williams|1983|p=[https://archive.org/details/keywordsvocabula00willrich/page/289 289]}}</ref> Terms used by Communist states include ''[[National-democratic state|national-democratic]]'', ''[[People's democracy (Marxism–Leninism)|people's democratic]]'', ''[[Socialist-leaning countries|socialist-oriented]]'', and ''[[Socialist state|workers and peasants']]'' states.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nation |first1=R. Craig |title=Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917–1991 |date=1992 |publisher=[[Cornell University Press]] |isbn=978-0801480072 |pages=85–86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WK18-OoR0pIC&pg=PA85 |access-date=19 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801050439/https://books.google.ie/books?id=WK18-OoR0pIC&pg=PA85 |archive-date=1 August 2019 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page