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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)

should we add national socialism?[edit]

one of the largest socialist parties in history appears to be a glaring omission. Darkstar1st (talk) 20:39, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]