the following is a list of communist and anti-capitalist parties with representation in national parliaments. this list does not contain communist and anti-capitalist parties previously represented in parliament. this list includes only those parties who officially call themselves communist or anti-capitalist (or socialist parties who are declared anti-capitalist) ideologically. 115 communist and anti-capitalist parties have been elected worldwide to parliament in 56 different countries in both recognised and non-recognised states. of the 66 states listed here, 9 of them are republics ruled by a socialist, communist or anticapitalist party, five of them are official socialist states ruled by a communist party, of them four of them espouse marxism–leninism (china, cuba, laos, and vietnam) while the fifth (north korea) espouses juche.