Socialism in Pakistan
The influences of socialism and socialist movements in Pakistan have taken many different forms as a counterpart to political conservatism, from the groups like The Revolutionary (Inqalabi) Communist Party, which is the Pakistani section of the Revolutionary Communist International, to Marxist-Leninists group like Communist Party through to the reformist electoral project enshrined in the birth of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). While capitalism has always held its sway, the prevalence of the socialist ideology has nevertheless continued to be found in a number of instances in Pakistan's political past and prominent personalities.