Barracks communism

Barracks communism (barracks socialism) is the term coined by Karl Marx to refer to primitive egalitarian concepts of communism with bureacratic regimentation of all aspects of social activity. In particular, Marx applied this term to the ideas of Sergey Nechayev exposed in his Fundamentals of the Future Social System and to German "petit bourgeoisie" revolutionaries in the middle of the 19th century.

Later, political theorists of the Soviet Union applied this term to social trends in the People's Republic of China between the 1950s and 1970s.

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