Glossary of Marxism-Leninism

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Security forces

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This term generally refers to the police, intelligence services (in the case of the United States this would be the F.B.I., C.I.A., N.S.A., the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence […]

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Social chauvinism

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Support of one’s “own” nation against other nations, particularly of imperialist nations during inter-imperialist conflicts. Social chauvinism can also manifest as a kind of great nation chauvinism in which one […]

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Socialist construction

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This is the period during which the material basis for socialism is being laid down. Productive relations are being changed, social formations are being altered, and, in the periphery, productive […]

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Solidarity

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Solidarity is giving support to a stranger on their own terms. It is different from philanthropy because it is given on the stranger’s terms, not that of the giver.   […]

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Soviet

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A Russian word meaning “council.” The first worker’s councils formed in Ivanovo in May of 1905. Soviets became the basis of self-organization among the Russian proletariat and gave their name […]

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Stagism

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The theory, a chief proponent of which was Georgi Plekhanov, the Menshevik, which posits that societies must go through varying stages of revolution before they can reach Communism; in particular, […]

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State

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(see also, class dictatorship)   The “public power” which no longer directly coincides with the population organizing itself. This public power becomes necessary as a matter of historical development when […]

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Surplus value

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Any period during which the worker has already made back the value of their wage and yet is still producing commodities for the capitalist. The formula for calculating surplus value […]