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What political ideology did Fred Hampton adhere to?

  • Capitalist

  • Marxist-Leninist

  • Libertarian

  • Monarchist

Answer

Fred Hampton was a Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninism is a theory of communism based on the writings of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. It holds that the working class must overthrow the capitalist system and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat, a transitional state in which the working class rules and prepares for the withering away of the state and the establishment of communism.
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