Glossary of Marxism-Leninism

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Capital

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(generally) Anything which is used to procure or extract surplus value. Capital is not a static definition, but rather constitutes an economic relation. Machinery that forms the instruments of production, […]

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Capitalism

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A mode of production in which the private ownership of the means of production predominates, and under which the only logic of production is the generation of profit AKA surplus […]

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Capitalist

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Another word for an “owner,” that is, a member of the bourgeoisie; i.e., someone who owns capital but does not support themselves through their own labor.

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Capitalist state

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Any state which operates as a class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeois republic is one form of a capitalist state. The fascist dictatorship is another form of capitalist state.

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Causes, the four

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Aristotle posited four logical causes for any phenomenon to help analyze that phenomenon:    1. Material causes are those things which are caused by the underlying matter itself. The material […]