Socialism, Communism, And Capitalism

Question 1

Socialism

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a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Question 2

Utopia

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an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was first used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More.

Question 3

Robert Owen

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14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.

Question 4

Karl Marx

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Karl Marx was a philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about capitalism and communism. Marx, in conjunction with Friedrich Engels, published “The Communist Manifesto” in 1848; later in his life, he wrote “Das Kapital,” which discussed the labor theory of value.

Question 5

Communism

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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Question 6

Proletariat

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the lowest class of citizens in ancient Rome.

Question 7

Democratic

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relating to or supporting democracy or its principles.

Question 8

Socialism

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a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Question 9

Communist Manifesto

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The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Question 10

Capitalism

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an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Question 11

Thomas Malthus

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An 18th-century British philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about population growth. Malthus’ population theories were outlined in his book, “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, first published in 1798.

Question 12

David Ricardo

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18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist. He was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and James Mill.

Question 13

Dictatorship

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government by a dictator.

Question 14

Laissez-Faire

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a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

Question 15

Adam Smith

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Adam Smith is one of the world’s most famous economists. Modern capitalism owes its roots to Adam Smith and his Wealth of Nations, which many consider the single most important economic work in history.

Question 16

Friedrich Engels

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28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist, and businessman. He founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx.

Question 17

Declaration Of Rights Of Woman

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The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written in 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and

Question 18

Suffrage

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the right to vote in political elections.

Question 19

Romanticism

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a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

Question 20

Realism

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the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.

Question 21

Naturalism

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(in art and literature) a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.
2.
a philosophical viewpoint according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted.

Question 22

Beethoven

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Beeth means ‘beetroot’ and Hoven is the plural of ‘Hof’, meaning ‘farm’. Beethoven is therefore ‘beetroot farms’. There is a village named Betthoven in the province of Liège. Early Beethoven History. In the 15th century, there were Beethoven’s at Limbourg and at Liège.

Question 23

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain” (meaning “Mark number two”) was a Mississippi River term: the second mark on the line that measured depth signified two fathoms, or twelve feet—safe depth for the steamboat. In 1857, at the age of twenty-one, he became a “cub” steamboat pilot.

Question 24

Cartography

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the science or practice of drawing maps.

Question 25

Social Darwinism

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the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.

Question 26

Charles Darwin

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Darwin, Charles definition. A British naturalist of the nineteenth century. He and others developed the theory of evolution. This theory forms the basis for the modern life sciences. Darwin’s most famous books are The Origin of Speciesand The Descent of Man.

Question 27

Albert Einstein

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physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955) Einstein.

Question 28

Relativity

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the absence of standards of absolute and universal application.

Question 29

Sigmund Freud

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born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Question 30

Modernism

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modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique.
“when he waxes philosophical, he comes across as a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism”
a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms.
a movement toward modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas, especially in the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Question 31

Impressionism

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a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.
a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction.

a style of composition (associated especially with Debussy) in which clarity of structure and theme is subordinate to harmonic effects, characteristically using the whole-tone scale.

Question 32

Monet

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a person who is attractive from a distance, but unattractive on closer inspection. He is such a monet. See more words with the same meaning: attractive person (either gender).

Question 33

Natural Selection

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the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution.

Question 34

Pyotr IIylch

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