communist and post-communist countries Flashcards
Bourgeoisie
The owners of factories or other means of production
BRIC
BRIC is a grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China, which are all deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development.
Central Planning
The ownership of private property and the market mechanism were replaced with the allocation of resources by the state bureaucracy.
The Communist Manifesto
A book written by Karl Marx in 1848
Co-optation
Allocation of power throughout various political, social, and economic institutions.
Democratic Centralism
The Vanguard who would lead the revolution since the people were incapable of providing leadership themselves.
Maoism
Maoism shares Marx’s vision of equality and cooperation, but Moa believed very strongly in preserving China’s peasant based society.
Market-based Socialism
Allows a lot of capitalist ideas to be infused into the system.
Marxism
The father of communism is Karl Marx.
Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto.
He believed that working conditions in capitalist countries would become so bad that there would be a revolt of the proletariat.
Karl Marx dreamed of a system where private ownership of property and social class would disappear
Communism encourages cooperation and equality.
Governments would slowly wither away.
Marxism-Leninism
an adaptation of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin, which led to the first successful communist revolution in Lenin’s Russia in November 1917.
Nomenklatura
The process of filling influential jobs in the state, society, or the economy with people approved or chosen by the communist party.
Proletariat
Workers
Social mobility
The opportunity for people to change their social status throughout their life.
“Vanguard of the revolution”
A group of revolutionary leaders who could provoke the revolution in non-capitalist Russia.
