The Liberation Party is a communist party

Communist party

A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

 in Argentina

Argentina

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. The party has its roots in the Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party

Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party

Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party was a political party in Argentina. PSAV was founded around 1960 as a leftist split from the Argentine Socialist Party . The founder of PSAV was Alexis Latendorff...

 (PSAV). It emerged as the Communist Vanguard (Vanguardia Comunista), evolving into the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista) in 1976, before adopting the name PL in 1983. The party publishes Liberación.

After the death of Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...

, the party approved of the changes of political line implemented by Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician, statesman, and diplomat. As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng was a reformer who led China towards a market economy...

. The party would eventually renounce Maoism.