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The following is a list of
political parties presently espousing a
variety of
socialism which have representation in national
parliaments, grouped by states in which they operate. The list does not contain parties previously represented in parliaments, nor
social democratic parties. 178 socialist,
communist and
anti-capitalist parties have been elected worldwide to parliament in 83 different recognized and non-recognized states. Of the 83 states listed here, 18 of them are republics ruled by a socialist, communist or anti-capitalist party, five of them are official
socialist states ruled by a
communist party; four of which espouse
Marxism–Leninism (
China,
Cuba,
Laos, and
Vietnam) while the fifth (
North Korea) espouses Juche.[1]
^Its currently unknown how many seats the South African Communist Party has in the national legislature since its MPs are elected through the
African National Congress, a separate political party. In the last election "almost the entire top SACP leadership was absorbed into the government".[18]
References
^Kim Jong-un, "Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding the Great Comrade Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the Eternal General Secretary of Our Party", 6 April 2002.
^*17th Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party (17 March 2010).
"Estatutos do PCP" [Statute of the PCP] (in Portuguese).
Portuguese Communist Party. Retrieved 15 January 2012.{{
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link)