National communism

National Communism is a form of Marxist-Leninist concepts of society.

The Marxist-Leninist political order should be placed here with the specific conditions of a country and its historical traditions in economic and cultural terms, in accordance. The writer Karl Otto Paetel sees in the German revolution of 1918, with, inter alia, the uprisings of the workers in Hamburg, the birth of national communism. The Hamburger League of Communists, who for a time led the long term national communists unofficially, was sharply criticized by Lenin in his writing children's diseases of Communism ( 1920), because it "Hamburger National Bolsheviks " strictly rejected in the international communist movement.

1945/46, with Communist parties, where they had come to power, a conception of national exceptionalism to communism. Josef Stalin rejected this idea. After the death of Stalin in 1953, national Communist ideas often went hand in hand with increasingly reform- communist ideas. The Soviet Union tried to keep the ideological unity of the communist movement and put them particularly in the Eastern bloc partly by force. These here are the suppression of the uprising in Hungary in 1956 and the Prague Spring in 1968. The perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev's government policy starting in 1985 with rejection of the Brezhnev Doctrine led to the lack of influence nationally and reform communist ideas. Instead, they led by progress of democratization at the end of communist rule.