That was a bit later though. Leninism came to China and Korea in the late 1910s and 20s. I am talking about the ideologies and philosophies (Marxism among them) that came from the West by way of Japan several decades earlier than that.<p>You could argue that Leninism and Stalinism are more directly responsible for North Korean Communism today than Marxism was, and you wouldn&#x27;t be wrong in my opinion, but the concepts of socialism, fascism, democracy, etc. first came to Korea and China by way of Japanese scholarship.