National Communism

"I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country."

Fidel Castro

National Communism is an Authoritarian left, culturally moderate, and nationalist ideology that believes that marxism can be combined with nationalism which is mostly inspired by Marxism–Leninism. National Communism believes that class consciousness is best achieved through a shared national identity, as the capitalist tendency of "spatial planning" results in it being imperialist and/or globalist. Thus, the strong promotion of sovereignty will allow the workers of a nation to unite unaffected by capitalistic powers.

He is different from National Bolshevism as he is more culturally moderate or left leaning, He also does not advocate for exclusivist supremacy and is more willing to develop towards communism than being fine with Bolshevik state control. However, he tends to be far less tolerant of perceived "deviant" behavior than ML. He just loathes how his "Tankie" father advocates for internationalism and insists he was the one who was truly dominant in the Cold War given the nationalistic and anti-colonialist tendencies of politicians like Castro.

History

Kazakhstan

WIP

Poland

Wojciech Jaruzelski was a Polish communist general who ruled the country from 1981 to 1990. One of the initiators of the introduction of martial law, which operated in 1981-1983, during which the military-police apparatus suppressed the protests of the Polish anti-communist opposition in order to prevent a possible invasion by the Soviet Union. In 1989, under the pressure of protests, he started negotiations with "Solidarity" and the Catholic Church, the so-called "Round Table", after the election of the President of Poland in 1990 and the victory of dissident Lech Walesa, he resigned. He planned to introduce partial political freedoms in Poland and to move from a planned to a market economy (On this occasion, he met with David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski in New York in 1985)

Hungary

WIP

Romania

Ceaușescuism: Nicolae Ceaușescu was the communist dictator of Romania from 1965-1989. His refusal to participate in the invasion of Czechoslovakia and his speech condemning the invasion in 1968 skyrocketed him to popularity in his own country and with western nations abroad. This set a pattern of a very anti-Soviet foreign policy for the rest of his reign. Ceaușescu took heavy inspiration from Maoism and Juche, Kim-Il Sung's grandiose parades and personality cult inspiring him to put on similar showcases back home in Romania. He developed one of the most pervasive personality cults in the Eastern Bloc, so much so that many observers remarked that it was the closest thing to an old-style functioning Stalinist regime, with the secret police (Securitate) monitoring every aspect of life and violently repressing any dissent against his regime. He also allocated funds to huge national monuments dedicated to himself, the most famous being the Palace of Parliament, which is the largest palace in the world and remains unfinished to this day.

Ceaușescu refused to liberalize during the period of glasnost and perestroika, and was very displeased when other members of the Warsaw Pact began reforming as well. He was referred to as "The Romanian Fuhrer" by Gorbachev. His reign of terror would eventually come to an end during the Romanian Revolution of 1989, where him and his wife Elena Ceaușescu were put on trial and executed by firing squad on national television.

Moldova

WIP

Yugoslavia

Rankovićism: Alexandar Ranković was a Serbian communist who worked as head of the ministry of interior, helping Tito purge Stalinists following the Yugo-Soviet Split. He also led a reign of terror against Albanians in Kosovo, favoring Serb dominance over Yugoslavia, while rejecting recognition of Bosnian identity and wanting centralization of Yugoslavia. Eventually, he was fired from his position after being accused of wiretapping Tito's office. Ranković's policies heavily influenced Slobodan Milošević.

Titoism could also be seen as a type of Natcom, but unlike Rankovićism, it is Pan-Slavic rather than Serb supremacist.

Czechoslovakia

WIP

Bulgaria

Todor Hristov Zhivkov was a Bulgarian communist dictator of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1954 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the second longest-serving leader in the Eastern Bloc, the longest-serving leader within the Warsaw Pact and the longest-serving non-royal ruler in Bulgarian history.

He became First Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1954 (General Secretary from April 1981), served as Prime Minister from 1962 to 1971 and from 1971 onwards as Chairman of the State Council, concurrently with his post as First Secretary. He remained in these positions for 35 years until 1989, thus becoming the longest-serving leader of any European Eastern Bloc nation, and one of the longest ruling non-royal leaders in modern history. His rule marked a period of unprecedented political and economic stability for Bulgaria, marked both by complete submission of Bulgaria to the Soviet Union and a desire to expand ties with the West. His rule remained unchallenged until the deterioration of East–West relations in the 1980s, when a stagnating economic situation, a worsening international image and growing careerism and corruption in the BCP weakened his position. He resigned on 10 November 1989, under pressure by senior BCP members due to his refusal to recognize problems and deal with public protests. Within a month of Zhivkov's ousting, communist rule in Bulgaria had effectively ended, and within a year the People's Republic of Bulgaria had formally ceased to exist.

Sweden

During the early 20th century a politician by the name of Nils Flyg would lead one of Sweden's most prominent Socialist parties. Flyg was greatly influenced by Lenin and was a staunch communist. However, when Stalin took control of the USSR his political leanings would change. His radical opposition to Stalin's Soviet Union and Britain's Imperialism would lead him to sympathise with Hitler. He saw the nazis as a great opposition to Stalin, Britain and the League of Nations. It is speculated that he also supported the nazis for the economic incentive as his party would begin to recieve funding from Germany.

Cuba

Prior to 1959, Cuba was ruled by Batista, an authoritarian capitalist dictator. From 1959-1960, Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries started the Cuban Revolution and overthrew Batista. Fidel Castro was made the new leader of Cuba. In 1961, the United States attempted to overthrow Castro but failed miserably in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, causing them to start using undercover operations to try and kill Castro. In 1962, the United States discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba and thus began the Cuban Missile Crisis. The United States said these missiles were illegal and violated international law, though this was hypocritical as they had stationed missiles in Turkey. After the Cuban Missile Crisis ended a week after it started, the US would keep trying to assassinate Castro up until his death in 2016 by natural causes. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Castro reportedly asked Khrushchev to launch nukes to strike the USA, which can be seen as a form of Posadism.

Turkey

W.I.P

Indonesia

Ibrahim Simabua Datuak (posthumous) Sutan Malaka also known as Tan Malaka (2 June 1897 – 21 February 1949) was an Indonesian statesman, teacher, Marxist, philosopher, founder of Struggle Union (Persatuan Perjuangan) and Murba Party, independent guerrilla and spy, Indonesian fighter, and national hero. Tempo credited him as "Father of the Republic of Indonesia" (Indonesian: Bapak Republik Indonesia).

Marxism and religion Tan Malaka argued strongly that Marxism and Islam were compatible, and that, in Indonesia, revolution should be built upon both. Thus, he was a strong supporter of the PKI's continued alliance with Sarekat Islam (SI), and was troubled when, while he was in exile, the PKI broke away from SI. On an international scale, Tan Malaka also saw Islam as holding the potential for unifying the working classes in vast parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia against imperialism and capitalism. This position put him in opposition to many European Communists and the leadership of Comintern, who saw religious belief as a hindrance to a proletarian revolution and a tool of the ruling class.[31] He became a trotskyist later during National Revolution and founded Murba party to oppose PKI influence strongly.

Politics Malaka described Nietzsche's, Rousseau's, and Marx-Engels' thoughts as thesis, antithesis, and synthesis respectively; while he described Hegel–Hindenburg–Stinnes', Danton–Robespierre–Marat's, and the Bolsheviks' thoughts as genesis, negation, and the negation of negation respectively.[55]

Education According to Harry A. Poeze, Malaka assumed that the colonial government used the educational system to produce educated indigenous people who would repress their own people. Malaka founded Sekolah Sarekat Islam to rival the government schools.[56] Syaifudin writes that Malaka had four different methods of teaching: dialog, jembatan keledai (mnemonics), critical discussion, and sociodrama.[57] In dialog method, Malaka used two-way communication while teaching.[58] During his time teaching in Deli, he encouraged students to criticize their teacher, or the Dutchman, who was often wrong. In the SI school, he entrusted students who received higher grades to teach students with lower grades.[59] Jembatan keledai was inspired by al-Ghazali; in addition to memorizing knowledge, the students were instructed to understand and apply it to their daily lives.[60] Syaifudin writes that it is the opposite of bank style concept, and that it is similar to contextual teaching and learning.[61] On critical discussion, Malaka not only verbally gave a problem to the students, but attempted to expose the problem directly,[62] a method is similar to the problem-posing method of Paulo Freire.[63] With his fourth method, sociodrama, Malaka aimed to make the students understand social problems and resolve them through role playing, and to provide entertainment to amuse the students after studying

South Yemen

The Yemeni Socialist Party government attempted to address these challenges through a series of Soviet-style development plans, which focused on industrialization, land reform, and the expansion of social services. However, these plans were hampered by poor planning, ,corruption, and the lack of financial resources. The country's economy struggled, and living standards remained low.

In addition to economic challenges, South Yemen faced political instability and internal conflict. The YSP was the only legal political party, and dissent was suppressed. There were several uprisings against the government, including a 1967 coup attempt and a 1971 civil war, which was fought between factions of the YSP. The government was also involved in a series of border disputes and conflicts with neighboring countries, including Oman and Saudi Arabia

Despite these challenges, South Yemen remained a key player in the Arab world due to its close ties to the Soviet Union. The country received significant economic and military assistance from the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, and it played a role in various regional conflicts, including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Iran-Iraq War. However, as the Cold War came to an end and the Soviet Union collapsed, South Yemen's position became increasingly precarious. The country's economy deteriorated further, and it became increasingly isolated internationally. In 1990, North and South Yemen united to form the Republic of Yemen. The unification process was led by President Ali Abdullah Saleh of North Yemen and Ali Salem al-Beidh, the secretary-general of the YSP in South Yemen. The two sides agreed to establish a federal system, with a central government responsible for foreign affairs and defense and regional governments responsible for local affairs. However, the process of unification was difficult, with deep-rooted differences between the two regions and suspicions on both sides. The YSP, which had ruled South Yemen, was effectively dismantled, and many southerners felt that the northern-dominated government was imposing its will on the south. This led to a rise in separatist sentiment and the emergence of movements advocating for greater autonomy or even outright separation. The separatist movement gained momentum in the 2000s and eventually culminated in the civil war in 2015.

Personality

He is almost like Marxism-Leninism but holds onto the social views of some 20th century ML movements, in that he's pro-nationalism as an ultimate long-term and not a short-term goal, while also not as culturally progressive as Marxism Leninism (though he is usually somewhat culturally left). This causes him to also butt heads with people confusing him for Strasserism or Nazbol as he is still generally anti-fascist even if he's more open to a tactical alliance than ML.

Will argue with Marxism-Leninism about him being the true embodiment of 20th century Communism, while still maintaining respect for him. Otherwise hangs out with the other cultural center and economically left-wing gang, though is not averse to discussing theory and strategy with extreme nationalist figures.

How to Draw

Flag of National Communism

The flag of National Communism is a palette swap of the Marxist-Leninist flag.

1. Draw a ball with eyes
2. Fill it with a black
3. Draw a Red hammer and sickle on it
4. (optional) Like with ML, draw an ushanka with a star

You are done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Black	#141414	rgb(20, 20, 20)

Relationships

Patriotic Proletarians

• Protectionism - Protecting local industry from foreign corruption is based.
• Socialism - Solidarity! Some of your internationalist brothers should stop hating on nationalism though.
• Conservative Socialism - I'm more culturally left-leaning and nationalistic but good direction.
• Left-Wing Nationalism - I’m your logical and based end goal.
• Police Statism - Almost all of my regimes were protected by him.
• Huaism - Based Chinese comrade and friend of Ceaușescu.
• Ho Chi Minh Thought - Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.
• Juche - Praise Pyongang and Bucharest! But some of my supporters see you as a revisionary.
• Socialist Kemalism - Me if i was in Turkey!
• Revolutionary Nationalism - For the motherland, comrade.

Indecisive Lumpens

• Marxism - Dad, I read your theory and I seek a classless stateless society, but what do you mean by "The working men have no country"?
• Marxism–Leninism - You're good but why Internationalism? I was the one actually dominant in the Cold War ya know.
  • For what Marx said, the working class has no country.

• Titoism - Basically me but Pan-Slavic and more open to markets. Such a shame you sacked Ranković for wiretapping your office promoting the interests of Serbian people, but most of my other regimes (except Zhivkov) liked you.
• Legionarism - Also a fascist who imprisoned me but I ended up rehabilitating him after all that.
• Hoxhaism - It’s good that you oppose the social imperialists too, but why do you call yourself an internationalist?
• Anti-Fascism - Why are some of you against the state?
• Maoism - A based combination of communism, protectionism, progressivism, and socialist patriotism but why internationalism?!
• Marxism-Leninism-Maoism - Same as above. I love your Channel its so based!
• Dengism - I like your combination of nationalism and economic collectivism, but you need to be less capitalist. And I suspect Xi is overshooting it, becoming like that madlad. (Quanguo and Pinkie fans have already overshot).
• Pol Potism - Free Cambodia from imperialism, to hell with inva- *sees killing fields* WHAT... IS THIS MADNESS?? TIME TO GET THE TANKS NOW!!
• Fourth Theory - he supports me to resist International Liberalism but his Great power politics is not okay
• Independence Anarchism - Quite a based Anarkiddy.
• Post-Colonial Anarchism - Same as above.
• Labour Zionism - And quite a based Ziotard.
• Proletarian Internationalism - A fellow communist but why do you call me an Oxymoron?
• Chiangism - You used to be so based, but then you abandoned me for your bonapartist endeavors.
• Salazarism - I support your African territories gaining their independence, but Castro maintained a relationship with you.
• National Bolshevism & Strasserism - YOU BITCH! PEOPLE THINK I'M YOU EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT! We definitely need to work together against capitalism. And Paetel is anti-Nazi, so he is not that bad (at least compared to the meme variant.)
• Albanian Socialism, MSZP, Die Linke, DPS, SPS, PSD, Lewica, BSP & Smer - I can't believe my own parties degenerated into this Atlanticist sellout but you have and defend a lot of my people.
• Mariamism & Barreism - Can you guys just stop fighting for 5 seconds?!?!? I like the fact you guys are both natcoms but you seriously need to stop.
• Afwerkism - Like the above also stop fighting please.

Globalist Sellouts

• Capitalism - DIE CAPITALIST GLOBO-IMPERIALIST RAT!
• Fascism - Die Fascist!
• Nazism - NAZI SCUM DIE!
• National Capitalism - Like Nazi, but more open about being a sellout.
• Welfare Chauvinism - Culturally too far, economically too moderate, just an unironic social fascist.
• National Anarchism - Same as above but civically too libertarian, just an anarkiddy social fascist.
• National Syndicalism - Fake proletarian, no better than social fascism.
• Neoliberalism - CAPPIE GLOBALIST! DIE!
• State Liberalism - YOU'RE LIKE THE ABOVE BUT EVEN WORSE, EWWWWWWW!
• Libertarian Internationalism - How are you even worse then the above?
• Liberal Internationalism - The only good thing I can say about you is that your not the above.
• Neoconservatism, Neo-Libertarianism and Third Way - Imperialist scum!
• Liberalism - Capitalist scum!
• Reactionary Liberalism - Just ordinary liberalism.
• National Conservatism, National Libertarianism and National Liberalism - You claim to be nationalists, yet you sell out the country's proletariat to the global bourgeois?
• Reactionary Socialism - Anti-nationalist and imperialist. No thanks! But I like your moderate variant though.
• Solidarność - Idiots which tried to overthrow me oh wait, they did, but the ZOMO gave you a good beating.
• Trotskyism - Globetard, red imperialist and fake communist. While Stalin was no nationalist who suppressed many natcoms, he was still better than you.
• Neighborstan - A truly cappie nation, home to nothing but capitalist pigs and reactionary dogs.

Further Infomation

Wikipedia

• National Communism
  • National Communism in Romania
• Romanian Communist Party
• Murba Party
• AIFB
• Rankovićism
• Irish Citizen Army
• Khalq (faction)

Videos

• Rise of Ceaușescu - Romanian National-Communism by The Cold War

Gallery

Portraits

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  National Communism with Arstotzka Hat
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  With a Ushanka hat
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  Red Sun

Variants

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  Castroism (Cuban Flag)
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  Castroism (Cuban Flag)
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  Castroism (Cuban Flag)
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  Castroism (M-26-7 Movement)
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  Castroism (M-26-7)
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  Castroism (M-26-7)
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  Arstotzka System
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  Flag of Castroism (Cuba)
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  Flag of Castroism (M-26-7)

Comics and Artwork

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  Credit: TheLegend2T, Source
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  By bonepennies
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  By NR34