List of ideologies named after people
Encyclopedia : L : LI : LIS : List of ideologies named after people
This list contains names of ideological systems, movements and trends named after persons. The stem may be either a person's real name or a nickname. Some of the eponyms are given by people adherring to the movements mentioned, others by outsiders.
Political
- Chauvinism - after Nicolas Chauvin
- Gaullism - after Charles de Gaulle
- Kimilsungism - after former North-Korean leader Kim Il-Sung
- Leninism - after Vladimir Lenin
- Maoism - after Mao Zedong
- Marxism - after German political economist Karl Marx
- McCarthyism - after United States Senator Joseph McCarthy
- Peronism - after former Argentine president Juan Perón
- Stalinism - after Joseph Stalin
- Thatcherism - after former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher
- Trotskyism - after Leon Trotsky
Religious
- Amish - after Jacob Amman
- Arianism- after Christian theologian Arius
- Calvinism - after John Calvin
- Christianity - after Jesus Christ
- Confucianism - after Confucius
- Darbyism - after John Nelson Darby
- Franciscan - after Francis of Assisi
- Hutterite - after Jakob Hutter
- Laestadianism - after Lars Levi Laestadius
- Lutheranism - after Church reformer Martin Luther
- Mennonite - after Menno Simons
- Wahhabism - after Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab
Economical
- Keynesianism - after John Maynard Keynes
- Malthusianism - after Thomas Malthus
Scientifical/philosophical
- Averroism - after Averroes
- Cartesian - after French philosopher René Descartes
- Darwinism - after Charles Darwin
- Thomism - after Thomas Aquinas
Other
- Machiavellianism - after Niccolò Machiavelli
- Victorianism - after Queen Victoria
See also
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.