socialist economy, socialism - an economic system based on state ownership of capital

Bolshevism, collectivism, sovietism - Soviet communism

ideology, political orientation, political theory - an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation

Castroism - a form of communism developed in Cuba by Fidel Castro

Leninism, Marxism-Leninism - the political and economic theories of Lenin which provided the guiding doctrine of the Soviet Union; the modification of Marxism by Lenin stressed that imperialism is the highest form of capitalism (which shifts the struggle from developed to underdeveloped countries)

Maoism - a form of communism developed in China by Mao Zedong

Marxism - the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded by communism

Trotskyism - the form of communism advocated by Leon Trotsky; calls for immediate worldwide revolution by the proletariat