Communism

"Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

- John F. Kennedy, 1963

Communism is a far-left range of economic and social systems characterized by social ownership of the means of production and worker's self-management, as well as the political theories and movements associated with them. This political idea has been one of the most influential through the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly during the Cold War during the height of the Soviet Union's power. Though not as common as they were during the Cold War, communist/socialist regimes still exist in the world.

It is considered to be a flawed and quite dangerous form of government. Many places where this system is tried ends with the country ending up in shambles, with no economy, limited food and water, and corrupt officials, many socialist countries are very dangerous.

Many of these countries have fallen apart after years of this practice.

Individuals

 * Abdullah Öcalan
 * Abimael Guzmán
 * Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
 * Ahmed Sékou Touré
 * Alexander Lukashenko
 * Bashar al-Assad
 * Bolesław Bierut
 * Che Guevara
 * Chin Peng
 * Choummaly Sayasone
 * Deniz Gezmiş
 * Dilma Rousseff
 * Dursun Karataş
 * Enver Hoxha
 * Erich Honecker
 * Fidel Castro
 * Gamal Abdel Nasser
 * Gerry Adams
 * Hafez al-Assad
 * Hồ Chí Minh
 * Hu Jintao
 * Hugo Chávez
 * İbrahim Kaypakkaya
 * Isaias Afewerki
 * Islam Karimov
 * Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
 * Jim Jones
 * José Eduardo dos Santos
 * Jose Maria Sison
 * Joseph Stalin
 * Josip Broz Tito
 * Khorloogiin Choibalsan
 * Kim Il-Sung
 * Kim Jong-Il
 * Kim Jong-un
 * Klement Gottwald
 * Lavrentiy Beria
 * Lazar Kaganovich
 * Lee Harvey Oswald
 * Leonid Brezhnev
 * Li Peng
 * Mao Zedong
 * Mátyás Rákosi
 * Mengistu Haile Mariam
 * Muammar Gaddafi
 * Ne Win
 * Nicolae Ceaușescu
 * Nicolás Maduro
 * Nursultan Nazarbayev
 * Pol Pot
 * Robert Mugabe
 * Saddam Hussein
 * Saparmurat Niyazov
 * Siad Barre
 * Sukarno
 * Than Shwe
 * Todor Zhivkov
 * Vladimir Lenin
 * Vyacheslav Molotov
 * Wojciech Jaruzelski
 * Xi Jinping
 * Yasser Arafat
 * Yılmaz Güney
 * Yuri Andropov

Organizations

 * Antifa
 * Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
 * Ba'ath Party
 * Boricua Popular Army
 * Communist Party of China
 * Communist Party of Latvia
 * Communist Party of Lithuania
 * Derg
 * ETA
 * FARC
 * Irish Republican Army
 * Japanese Red Army
 * KGB
 * Khmer Rouge
 * Kurdistan Workers' Party
 * League of Militant Atheists
 * New People's Army
 * NKVD
 * Paraguayan People's Army
 * Pathet Lao
 * People's Mujahedin of Iran
 * Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
 * Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front
 * Shining Path
 * SMERSH
 * Stasi
 * Việt Cộng
 * Weather Underground
 * Workers' Party of Korea
 * ZANU-PF