COMMUNISTSTATE

Communist state

A communist state is a state with a form of government characterized by single-party rule or dominant-party rule by a communist party and a professed allegiance to a Leninist or Marxist–Leninist ideology as the guiding principle of the state. Technically, "communist state" is a contradictio in terminis as a communist society as defined by both Marxists and anarcho-communists is in principle stateless. From this perspective, the term Marxist-Leninist state is more appropriate.

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