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Commodity

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Any product made with the intention of exchanging it to realize surplus value, rather than made for use (use value). Commodity production is the basis of the modern capitalist economy.

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Commodity production

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A mode of production that underlies the modern capitalist economic model. Commodity production is an economic relation that relies on:   1. the existence of wage labor;   2. the […]

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Contradiction

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A core analytical tool; contradictions are the inherently opposed logical extensions or compositions of any given state of affairs. Contradiction is what drives change as two or more incompatible propositions […]

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Counterrevolution

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(see also, revolution)   The organized, often violent, reaction of capital and its agents designed to crush the Communist revolution. Counter-revolution often recruits disillusioned and unprincipled communists to its side.