Communist revolution
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- Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution
- Mao Zedong and leading revolutionaries proclaim the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949
- Viet Minh troops returning to Hanoi after the French withdrawal on 9 October 1954
- A Nepalese Maoist rebel speaks to villagers in the area around Piskar
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A communist revolution is a proletarian revolution inspired by the ideas of Marxism that aims to replace capitalism with communism. Depending on the type of government, the term socialism can be used to indicate an intermediate stage between capitalism and communism and may be the goal of the revolution, especially in Marxist–Leninist views. The idea that a proletarian revolution is needed is a cornerstone of Marxism; Marxists believe that the workers of the world must unite and free themselves from capitalist oppression to create a world run by and for the working class. Thus, in the Marxist view, proletarian revolutions need to happen in countries all over the world.