Skip to main content

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Preferred term

communist parties  

Definition

  • Communist parties are radical Leftist political organizations that aim to facilitate either a coercive or peaceful transition of society from capitalism to communism. Such parties initially emerged as factions within many European socialist and social-democratic parties at the end of the 19th century. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Communist Parties]

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZXKS4XC9-Z

Download this concept: