French Communist Party

Definition

The French Communist Party is a major political party in France that advocates for the principles of communism - such as public ownership of property and means of production.

Analogy

Imagine if your entire class owned all the textbooks collectively instead of individually. Everyone would have equal access regardless of their personal wealth. That's similar to how the French Communist Party wants society to operate - with collective ownership for equality.

Related terms

Communism: A socio-economic system where all property is publicly owned and each person works according to their abilities and needs.

Marxism-Leninism: The ideological foundation for communism based on theories developed by Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin advocating for proletarian revolution and establishment of a dictatorship of proletariat.

Proletariat Revolution: A social revolution where working-class people overthrow capitalism to establish communist societies.