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Bairdism is a {{wp|List of communist ideologies|communist ideology}} developed by Carnish {{wp|Marxism|Marxist}} {{wp|political theorist}}, {{wp|philosopher}} and revolutionary [[William Baird]] that proposes the establishment of a {{wp|communism|communist society}} through the creation of {{wp|Democracy|democratic}} {{wp|Workers' council|people's councils}} organised under a {{wp|Decentralization|decentralised}}, {{wp|Non-partisan democracy|non-partisan}}, {{wp|Classless society|classless}} union. Built around the theories of {{wp|Council communism|council communism}} and {{wp|Libertarian Marxism|libertarian Marxism}}, Bairdism is staunchly {{wp|Anti-authoritarianism|anti-authoritarian}}, {{wp|Anti-statism|anti-state}} and democratic and is firmly opposed to {{wp|Leninism|Devinism}} and the concept of the revolutionary {{wp|vanguardism|vanguard party}}. Bairdism instead proposes that a network of worker councils would be the main vehicle for revolution against the {{wp|Capitalism|capitilist state}}. Bairdism is also critical of {{wp|Reformism|reformist}} positions such as those held by {{wp|Social democracy|social democrats}}, believing that communists should not participate in bourgeois parliaments. Despite the ideology's anti-state position, Bairdism proposes that a highly decentralised state organised as a union of {{wp|Federalism|federal}} councils is an unfortunate necessity until the means to establish a {{wp|Post-scarcity economy|post-scarcity society}} are obtained. However, due to the ideology's anti-state position, Bairdist nations do not class themselves as {{wp|Socialist state|socialist states}} as Devinist nations do. Instead, Bairdism proposes that Bairdist nations are already communist societies and the that removal of the state is simply the last necessity to achieve a perfect communist society. Bairdism also claims that it is the communist ideology truest to the teachings {{wp|Karl Marx|Carlos Marx}}, and that Marx himself was a libertarian Marxist.