Acronyms

This is a list of common acronyms and initialisms used within the Marxist community.

An acronym with an 's' appended on it, such as MLs refers to people with that ideology.

Acronym	Meaning
AES	Actually Existing Socialism
CPC	Communist Party of China
CPV	Communist Party of Vietnam
DemSoc	Democratic Socialism
DDR	Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic)
DPRK	Democratic People's Republic of Korea
ML	Marxism–Leninism
MLM	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
MZT	Mao Zedong Thought
PRC	People's Republic of China
SocDem	Social Democracy
USSR	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
DotP	Dictatorship of the Proletariat
PatSoc	Patriotic Socialism

See Also

Marxist terminology