Branches of Socialism

Branches of Socialism

Since the 19th century, socialist ideas have developed and separated into many different streams. Notable ideologies that have been referred to using the label "socialism" are:

• African socialism
• Anarchism, especially Libertarian socialism
• Anarcho-syndicalism
• Arab socialism
• Christian socialism
• Communism/Marxism
• Democratic socialism
• International socialism
• National socialism
• Syndicalism
• Utopian socialism

The socio-political or intellectual movements basing themselves in the Marxist-Socialist tradition can generally be further divided into:

• Albanianism
• Castroism
• Council communism
• Juche
• Left communism
• Leninism
• Maoism
• Marxist humanism
• Socialism with a human face
• Stalinism
• Trotskyism
• Situationism

Several forms of "socialism" are considered by those further to the left to be reformist or revisionist. These include:

• Evolutionary socialism
• Fabianism
• Social democracy
• Yellow socialism
• Socialism with Chinese characteristics and other forms of market socialism
• Bernsteinism
• Kautskyism
• Titoism