Endokomuna or komunoendecja, translated as Endo-Communism, is a term used to describe an ideology within the Polish United Workers' Party, the dominant political party of the Polish People's Republic from 1948 to 1989. Initially used to describe a faction, it is now also used to denote the period during which it became the de facto ruling ideology of Poland. The term itself, endokomuna or komunoendecja, is a portmanteau of Endecja and komuna. Described as a "peculiar marriage of authoritarian Communism and chauvinist nationalist tendencies", it represented a dogmatic approach to Marxism–Leninism combined with the ultranationalism and social conservatism of the prewar Endecja movement in Poland. As an ideology, endokomuna was considered a Polish form of national communism that sought to augment real socialism with nationalism; it was known for its embrace of Roman Catholicism, fervent anti-liberalism, and the term "banana left". Similarly to Endecja, it was aggressively anti-Western and Russophilic, arguing that the real danger to Polish sovereignty and to Polish national identity was not the Soviet Union, but the Western capitalist bloc.