Category talk:Socialism

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I have now spent some time categorising the various articles on socialism and its various offshoots. To keep matters as simple as possible, I have kept the most important variants of socialism as direct subcategories.

  • For some reason, Trotskyism was classified as a subcategory of communism, which I think is misleading. Certainly there is a shared history, but existing communism differs enough from Trotskyism and the followers of the latter more often self identify as socialist rather than communist that I have put them both as direct subcategories of Socialism. However, a case can be made to put both Communism and Trotskyism as subcategories of Marxism, rather than of Socialism.
  • Within the category "socialist parties" there are listed those parties which self identify as socialist, but do not place themselves within a specific tradition.
  • For those parties which do place themselves within a certain tradition, there are subcategories within that tradition; e.g. there is a subcategory "Trotskyist organisations" within the category Trotskyist.
  • The same goes for the more important people associated with the various traditions, though I've also kept the most important (e.g. Trotsky for Trotskyism) within the main category.
  • Within Communism, there are two categories for Left communism and Maoism, both of which clearly identify themselves as Communist.

Anyway, I wanted to make my reasoning clear here, so y'all know there is some reasoning behind it...

--Martin Wisse 15:05, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)