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 |
| 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[note 1] |
Notes
- ↑ The term "PatSoc" almost always refers to the "Patriotic Socialists" in the United States of America exclusively