STATE ARCHIVE // IDEOLOGICAL CARTOGRAPHY DIVISION

RED ARCHIVE

Twenty schools. Five centuries. One long argument about who owns the future. This archive maps every major current of communist thought — where each one spawned, what it believed, whom it fought and what it became — as a living tree of descent, influence and schism. A history file with a line of its own, argued rather than assumed: the purges, famines and heresies are documented alongside the theory.

FILES 20 SPAN 1516 – NOW SCHISMS LOGGED 13 STATUS DECLASSIFIED
Descent Influence Schism

01 The Lineage Tree

Every school descends from, reacts to, or excommunicates another. Hover a junction to isolate its wiring; click to open the dossier. Gold traces are descent, teal are influence, red are schisms.

Drag to travel across the full map. Select any junction to open its dossier.

DESCENT INFLUENCE SCHISM ○ = OPEN JUNCTION FILE

02 The Files

Marx, Engels and Lenin on a banner over Red Square during a May Day parade
Red Square // the three heads on the banner

Foundations Files 01–05

FILE 01 // 1516–1840s Utopian Socialism Model villages, phalansteries and dreamed cities: communism before the class struggle. FILE 02 // 1848 Marxism The source code. Historical materialism, surplus value, and a spectre haunting Europe. FILE 03 // 1876 Anarcho-Communism The commune without the state — Kropotkin's bread against the dictatorship of the proletariat. FILE 04 // 1895 De Leonism The ballot box plus one big industrial union: revolutionary socialism, made in America. FILE 05 // 1889 Orthodox Marxism The Second International: waiting scientifically for capitalism to fall on schedule.

Revolutionary century Files 06–10

FILE 06 // 1902 Leninism The vanguard party: professional revolutionaries seize the state — then the century. FILE 07 // 1906 Luxemburgism Revolution as mass strike; freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently. FILE 08 // 1918 Left Communism Councils not parties, workers not leaders — the heresy Lenin called an infantile disorder. FILE 09 // 1923 Trotskyism Permanent revolution in exile; the Fourth International against the betrayed one. FILE 10 // 1924 Marxism–Leninism Stalinism: socialism in one country — the party-state orthodoxy of the USSR and its bloc.

Global roads Files 11–16

FILE 11 // 1923 Western Marxism From Gramsci's hegemony to the Frankfurt School: why the revolution never came west. FILE 12 // 1949 Maoism The countryside surrounds the cities: peasant war, permanent upheaval, people's war. FILE 13 // 1948 Titoism Worker self-management and non-alignment — the first successful "no" to Moscow. FILE 14 // 1959 Guevarism The foco: a dozen guerrillas in the mountains can spark the revolution. FILE 15 // 1962 Posadism Nuclear fire, dolphins and flying saucers: Trotskyism's strangest child. FILE 16 // 1955 Juche Self-reliance as dynasty: Korea's man-centred rewrite of Marxism–Leninism.

Late currents Files 17–20

FILE 17 // 1961 Hoxhaism Bunker Albania holds the line: everyone else is a revisionist. FILE 18 // 1961 Autonomism Refuse work, exit the factory: operaismo and the social factory. FILE 19 // 1975 Eurocommunism Ballots over Moscow: the Western parties break with the Soviet model. FILE 20 // 1978 Dengism To get rich is glorious: the socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics.