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Marxism–Leninism
Marxism–Leninism is the communist ideology developed in the Soviet Union from the ideas of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin and codified under Joseph Stalin in the late 1920s. It holds that a vanguard party should seize power, rule a one-party state in the name of the working class and build socialism through state ownership and central planning. It was the official ideology of the Soviet Union and of most communist states of the 20th century.
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