Marxism Study Guide terms

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Atheistic and materialistic world view based on the ideas of Karl Marx that promotes the abolition of private property, public ownership of the means of production and the utopian dream of a future communistic state

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Marxism

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The Marxist ideal of a classless and stateless utopian society In which all property is commonly owned and each person is paid according to his abilities or needs

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Communism

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An economic system in which capital assets are privately owned, and the prices ,production, and distribution of goods and services are determined by competition within a free market.

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Capitalism

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An economic system based upon governmental or communal ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods and services

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Socialism

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The practice of federal governments taking ownership and management control of private business

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State capitalism

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The belief that only the material world exists and that class struggles are the mechanism behind social and economic progress(the current economic class between the proletariat and bourgeoisie will eventually give way to socialism and the end of capitalism)

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Dialectical materialism

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Belief in human progress; the belief that political systems can be used to create economic prosperity , minimize risk, and advance society.

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Progressivism

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The belief that economics determines the entire course of human history, ultimately and inevitability leading to a communist future

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Economic determinism

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Those who owns the means of production( owners)

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Bourgeoisie

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Working class wage earners who do not own the means of production

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Proletariat

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The belief that the working class is becoming Increasingly aware of their position in society and their oppression by the bourgeoisie

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Class consciousness

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The belief that whatever advances the proletariat and communism is morally good and whatever hinders the proletariat and communism is morally evil

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Proletariat morality

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A work written by karl Marx that outlines the leagues goal and means of eliminating capitalism and achieving a communist society through a proletariat revolution

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Communist manifesto