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Glossary of Socialist Terms

Try to keep each term to 3 sentences max Try to keep the definitions as simple as possible, ELI 10 years old

Term Definition
Capitalism A system that allows private individuals to own the means of production, with the goal of extracting a profit from the sale of commodities produced by wage workers.
Communism A stateless, moneyless, and classless system where the means of production are democratically owned and controlled by the community, for the benefit of all.
Socialism The transitional stage between capitalism and communism, sometimes referred to as the dictatorship of the proletariet. It can also be synonymous with communism.
Anarchism
Social Democracy
Welfare State
State Capitalism
Liberalism
Slavery A system that allows individuals to own other human beings, in order to extract a surplus from their labor.
Feudalism An arrangement predominating in the middle ages, where a local lord would allow serfs to live and sustain themselves on his land, as long as they provided labor and military support when asked.
Fascism
Means of Production
Private Property
Personal Property
Public Property
Proletariet The wage-earning class which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for their labor power(Their ability to work).
Bourgeoisie
Class Struggle A tension that exists between competing classes, caused by contradictory interests, that can only be resolved through violent confrontation. The competing classes are determined by the economic mode of society: In Slavery, the slave and the master. In Feudalism, the lord and the serf. In Capitalism, the capitalist and the wage worker.
Petit Bourgeoisie
Cultural Hegemony
The State
Imperialism
Nationalism An ideology which emphasizes nations(and often specific races living in those nations), self-governance, national identity, and patriotism over internationalism. Communists want working-class internationalism, but also defend the rights of nations to be free from imperialism.
Praxis
Surplus Value
Dictatorship of the Proletariet
Dialectical Materialism
Labor theory of value
Socialism in one country
Permanent Revolution
Right of nations to self-determination
Mass Line
Mass Strike
Alienation
Branches
Marxism A socialist tradition created by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, that places emphasis on the means of production, your relation to them, and the inherent class struggle involved between those who control production, and those who don't.
Leninism
Marxism-Leninism(ML)
Maoism
Anarcho-communism
Egoist Anarchism
Trotskyism
Luxemburgism
Syndicalism
Council Communism
Hoxhaism
Autonomism
Bordigism
Titoism
Communalism

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