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# Leftist Terminology Chart
These are terms for agitating and radicalizing urban and rural wage-workers. Feel free to submit a pull-request to this file.
| Socialist | Urban Workers | Rural Workers |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Socialism | Democracy in the workplace | Community self-ownership |
| Proletariat | Working Class | Working farmers |
| Ruling Class / Bourgeoisie | Top 1% | Rich / Lords / Bosses / Banks |
| Class struggle | Landlords vs Tenants | Feudal lords vs peasants / Rich vs Poor / Corporatization |
| Revolution | Armed overthrow | Community empowerment |
| Capital | Absentee Property | |
| Surplus value | Profit , IE `value added - wage paid` | Company take / Exploitation |
| Dialectical Materialism | Historical Evolution of Production | Changes in production |
| Bourgeois democracy | Democracy for the rich | |
| Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie | Police state | |
| Dictatorship of the Proletariat | Worker control of society | Control over your community |
| Revolutionaries | Community Organizers | |
| Liberal | Individualist | Selfish smug aristocrats |
| Imperialism | Colonial exploitation | Bombing other workers |