KATHMANDU: A merger of nine leftist factions including the CPN (Maoist Centre) and the CPN (Unified Socialist) culminated today with the formation of the Nepali Communist Party at the national unity conference in Bhrikuti Mandap, Kathmandu. The newly unified party has proposed “Star” as its election symbol. Among the key participants was former Prime Minister […]
As always, Lenin did it first with the Bolsheviks (although they did toss out some socialist factions too).
To be fair to the Bolsheviks, there were a lot of groups at that time calling themselves socialist that absolutely were not socialists.