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