Marxist terminology

thumb|La sortie du bourgeois, painted by Jean Béraud (1889) The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners, merchants and wealthy people, in general, which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between the peasantry and aristocracy. They are traditionally contrasted with the proletariat by their wealth, political power, and education, as well as their access to and control of cultural, social, and financial capital.

Marxist concept regarding the transitional period from capitalism to communism

reference to physical, non-human inputs used in production to produce wealth

In Marxist theory, the Lumpenproletariat (; ) is the underclass devoid of class consciousness. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels coined the word in the 1840s and used it to refer to the unthinking lower strata of society exploited by reactionary and counter-revolutionary forces, particularly in the context of the revolutions of 1848. They dismissed the revolutionary potential of the Lumpenproletariat and contrasted it with the proletariat. Among other groups, criminals, vagabonds, and prostitutes are usually included in this category.

social class

Marxist concept of overthrowing capitalism in all countries

in Marxist theory, the strategy of a revolutionary class pursuing its own interests independently and without compromise or alliance with opposing sections of society

various ideas, principles and theories based on a significant revision of fundamental Marxist premises

element of Marxist theory

Marxist term for way of producing goods

mode of production

dependence on wages or salary

marxist notion of cultural dominance

concept in Marxist analysis

Marxist social class concept

thumb|Supporters of the anti-revisionist Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) march during the May Day 2007 manifestations in [[Santiago, Chile, carrying a banner with the portraits of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin]]

A comprador or compradore () is a "person who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation." An example of a comprador would be a native manager for a European business house in East and South East Asia, and, by extension, social groups that play broadly similar roles in other parts of the world.

sociological concept

Economism is a direct reduction of any political or cultural phenomena or activities to economics.

Marxist historiographical term

Commodification is the process of transforming inalienable, free, or gifted things (objects, services, ideas, nature, personal information, people, or animals) into commodities, or objects for sale. It has a connotation of losing an inherent quality or social relationship when something is integrated by a capitalist marketplace. Concepts that have been argued as being commodified include broad items such as the body, intimacy, public goods, animals and holidays.

social revolution in which the working class attempts to overthrow the bourgeoisie

Marxist theory

consciousness shared by individuals within a society

conflict occurring over a territory that has declared independence

political system; emphasizes directly elected soviets or councils

series of revolutions occurring in various locations within a similar time span, generally favouring similar ideologies

study of materials and energy flows between nature and society

nationalism of the ruling class under capitalism

capitalism featuring rent-seeking without wealth creation

Concept introduced by Vladimir Lenin

economic concept

trotskyist view of state socialist bureaucracy, particularly under Stalin

the lack of resources to sustain the diet, lifestyle, activities and amenities that an individual or group are accustomed to or that are widely encouraged or approved in the society to which they belong

Liquidationism () was the ideology among some members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) who argued for the abandonment of the underground party work and transition to exclusively legal political activities.

Marxist theory that argues a disconnection or imbalance of metabolic interaction between humanity and the rest of nature due to capitalist production

Marxist–Leninist theory that underdeveloped countries must pass through a capitalistic stage via bourgeois revolution before moving to a socialist stage

concept of the state in a capitalist system

concept advanced by Marxist Social Class Theory

political ideology

concept in Marxist political economy; resources that enable labor

concept in Trotskyist political theory

process by which we encounter a culture's or ideology's values and internalize them

Lumpenbourgeoisie is a term used in colonial sociology to describe members of the middle class and upper class (merchants, lawyers, industrialists, etc.) who have little collective self-awareness or economic base and who support the colonial masters. It is often attributed to Andre Gunder Frank in 1972, although the term is already present in several texts by Lukács (1943), Koestler (1945), C. Wright Mills (1951) and also in Paul Baran's The Political Economy of Growth (1957). Nonetheless, the term was popularized by Frank's book Lumpenbourgeoisie and Lumpendevelopment: Dependency, Class and P

Ultra-imperialism (occasionally hyperimperialism and formerly super-imperialism) is a potential, comparatively peaceful phase of capitalism, meaning after or beyond imperialism. It was described mainly by Karl Kautsky. Post-imperialism is sometimes used as a synonym of ultra-imperialism, although it can have distinct meanings.

Non-simultaneity or nonsynchronism (German: Ungleichzeitigkeit, sometimes also translated as non-synchronicity) is a concept in the writings of Ernst Bloch which denotes the time lag, or uneven temporal development, produced in the social sphere by the processes of capitalist modernization and/or the incomplete nature of those processes. The term, especially in the phrase "the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous", has been used subsequently in predominantly Marxist theories of modernity, world-systems, postmodernity and globalization.

strategy of building skills and counterinstitutions