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proletariat
thumb|The Fourth Estate (painting)|The Fourth Estate (1901) by [[Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo]]
despotism
thumb|233x233px|Pol Pot, leader of the [[Khmer Rouge, is widely regarded as one of the most brutal despots of the 20th century, responsible for the deaths of an estimated quarter of Cambodia's population.]] thumb|233x233px|Suharto, who ruled [[Indonesia from 1967 to 1998 under the 'New Order' regime, is regarded as a despot whose rise to power followed the 1965–66 anti-communist purges, during which an estimated half a million people were killed, and whose rule was marked by authoritarianism, repression, and endemic corruption.]]
hegemony
thumb|Ancient Greece under the hegemony of Thebes, 371–362 BC
dialectical materialism
philosophy derived from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
historical materialism
Marxist historiography
land reform
changes to land ownership
class consciousness
awareness of one's social class, its interests and position
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Reformism is a political tendency advocating the reform of an existing system or institution—often a political or religious establishment—as opposed to its abolition and replacement via revolution.
technological determinism
theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
Neo-Marxism
Neo-Marxism is a collection of Marxist schools of thought originating from 20th-century approaches to amend or extend Marxism and Marxist theory, typically by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions such as critical theory, psychoanalysis, or existentialism. Neo-Marxism comes under the broader framework of the New Left. In a sociological sense, neo-Marxism adds Max Weber's broader understanding of social inequality, such as status and power, to Marxist philosophy.
The State and Revolution
book where Lenin analyzes the state as a necessary instrument of the communist party during the dictatorship of the proletariat
creative destruction
in economics, the linked processes of the accumulation and annihilation of wealth under capitalism
mode of production
Marxist term for way of producing goods
primitive communism
mode of production
base and superstructure
element of Marxist theory
autonomism
left-wing political and social movement and theory
proletarian internationalism
Marxist social class concept
cultural hegemony
marxist notion of cultural dominance
Anti-Dühring
'''''Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science (), commonly known as Anti-Dühring''', is a book by Friedrich Engels, published in 1878 and first serialised in the newspaper Vorwärts'' in 1877–1878. The work is a polemical response to the philosophical views of Eugen Dühring, a German philosopher and socialist whose ideas were gaining influence within the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In countering Dühring, Engels provided a comprehensive and accessible exposition of Marxism as a science. The book is divided into three parts—Philosophy, Political Economy, and Socialism—and became a
classless society
society in which no one is born into a social class
international relations theory
study of international relations from a theoretical perspective
scientific socialism
social-political-economic theory
productive forces
in Marxism, the combination of the means of labor (tools, machinery, land, infrastructure…) with human labor power
relations of production
concept in Marxism
Ernest Mandel
Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher (1923–1995)
communist society
type of society and economic system
Guevarism
thumb|Che Guevara, after whom Guevarism is named.
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
book by Vladimir Lenin
Western Marxism
body of various Marxist theoreticians based in Western and Central Europe
Asiatic mode of production
mode of production
false consciousness
in Marxism, the ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes conceal exploitation and legitimizes the existence of different classes
Marx's theory of alienation
social theory claiming that capitalism alienates workers from their humanity
reification
treating social constructs as if they were natural things or attributes in themselves
state monopoly capitalism
Marxist theory
Praxis School
Marxist humanist philosophical movement
Marxist philosophy
philosophy influenced by Marxist political thought
Marxist humanism
school of Marxism that primarily focuses on Marx's earlier writings, esp. the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 on alienation, as opposed to his later works, concerned with a structural conception of capitalist society
dual power
situation after the February Revolution in which two powers competed for legitimacy: the Petrograd Soviet and the Russian Provisional Government
dialectical logic
system of laws of thought
Workerism
Operaismo (Italian for "workerism") was a heterodox Marxist political and theoretical tendency that emerged in Italy in the early 1960s. Its foundational insight, a "Copernican revolution" in Marxist thought, was to invert the traditional relationship between capital and labour, positing that the struggles of the working class were the primary driving force of capitalist development. Capital, in this view, does not develop along its own internal laws but is forced to restructure and innovate in response to working-class antagonism.
Rate of profit
relative profitability of an investment project, a capitalist enterprise or a whole capitalist economy
Soviet democracy
political system; emphasizes directly elected soviets or councils
antihumanism
In social theory and philosophy, antihumanism or anti-humanism is a theory that is critical of traditional humanism and its traditional ideas about humanity and the human condition. Central to antihumanism is the view that philosophical anthropology and its concepts of "human nature", "man" or "humanity" should be rejected as historically relative, ideological or metaphysical.
crisis theory
Marxian theory of causes and consequences of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall in a capitalist system
world communism
communism of international scope
free association
economics concept
liquidationism
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.
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
2009 non-fiction work by Mark Fisher
refusal of work
behavior in which a person refuses regular employment
Degenerated workers' state
trotskyist view of state socialist bureaucracy, particularly under Stalin
political consciousness
psychological Political Theory
young Marx
German philosopher before the 1850s, as expressed in his writings
Marxist aesthetics
theory of aesthetics based on, or derived from, the theories of Karl Marx
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
book by Joseph Stalin
capitalist mode of production
Marxist theory
Neo-Gramscianism
Neo-Gramscianism is a critical theory approach to the study of international relations (IR) and the global political economy (GPE) that explores the interface of ideas, institutions and material capabilities as they shape the specific contours of the state formation. The theory is heavily influenced by the writings of Antonio Gramsci. Neo-Gramscianism analyzes how the particular constellation of social forces, the state and the dominant ideational configuration define and sustain world orders. In this sense, the neo-Gramscian approach breaks the decades-old stalemate between the realist school
The Foundations of Leninism
1924 publication written by Joseph Stalin
Marxist archaeology
archaeological theory that interprets archaeological information within the framework of Marxism
transformation problem
problem in Marxian economics of finding a rule to transform values of commodities (based on labor content) into competitive prices of the marketplace
simple commodity production
concept in economic theory