Marxism and the later traditions grouped under communism

The terminology used here reserves Marxism or revolutionary socialism for the proposed 1890 movement and separates it from later Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and Trotskyism. When the earlier Communist League is raised, the answer distinguishes people using the communist label from the subsequent development of those political theories. Anarchism is recalled as another important revolutionary current. The discussion also considers attempts to connect Christianity with communal ideals, including the Levellers, while a suggested parallel with colonial Georgia is explicitly uncertain. The Paris Commune of 1871 is described here as a distinct Marxist tradition later absorbed into the broader theory. Marx's opposition to disarming the working class is contrasted with the practices of later regimes. These are the distinctions advanced in the discussion, whose terminology is narrower than the umbrella use of communism it also acknowledges.