Lesson 70 pg. 193 - 195 Flashcards
List ways that the government can crush market economies and political orders
> confiscation of private property
restraint of economic competition
governmental monopolization of production and distribution
control of consumption through forced rationing
strict control or abolition of labor unions
nationalization of banking systems
governmental determination of wages
Define nationalism
nationalism - the promotion of one’s own nation and government regardless of moral considerations
Define communism
communism - an economic system based upon public ownership and governmental control of the production and distribution of nearly all national resources
Who was Karl Marx?
> published “The Communist Manifesto” in which he outlined classic Communist philosophy and described steps he felt were needed to establish Communism worldwide
formulated basic ideas of Communism and advocated overthrow of free market
wrote “Das Kapital” in which he wrote “in order to establish equality, we must first establish inequality”
promoted violent overthrow of bourgeois (property owners) and of proletariat (common working class)
Define bourgeois
bourgeois - property owners
Define proletariat
proletariat - common working class