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Age

August 11, 2022 USU Editorial Board 0

Children and elderly persons are both largely, but not entirely, excluded from productive labor. This was not the case as recently as the 20th century; thanks to labor organizing, children […]

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Capital

August 11, 2022 USU Editorial Board 0

(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

August 11, 2022 USU Editorial Board 0

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

August 12, 2022 USU Editorial Board 1

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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Disability

August 11, 2022 USU Editorial Board 0

In its social sense, “ability” describes a person’s capacity for labor, relative to the social average. This social average makes up the general labor-power of society. Disability describes the individual’s […]

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Gender

August 11, 2022 USU Editorial Board 0

Gender, in the abstract, is the class-ordered division of labor and property. Patriarchy is the logic of gender that forms the basis (or substructure) of all consequent patriarchal class societies, […]

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Nation

August 11, 2022 Cde-Editor Katsfoter 0

Nation is a political-economic category. A nation is a historically constituted, stable community that is formed on the basis of:   a common language, a common territory, a common economic […]