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A conception of revolution generally attributed to Louis Auguste Blanqui, which holds that socialist revolution should be carried out by a relatively small group of highly organised and secretive conspirators.
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(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.
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(Maoism, derogatory) One who bows to pressure from bourgeois forces and attempts to pull the revolution in a capitalist direction; particularly prominent during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
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(historical) Members of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th-century Italy, often with a patriotic and liberal focus.
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An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively
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Alternative form of colour revolution. [(politics) Any of various related revolutionary movements that developed in several societies in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans during the early 2000s, mostly using nonviolent resistance.]
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(politics) Any of various related revolutionary movements that developed in several societies in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans during the early 2000s, mostly using nonviolent resistance.
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(economics, politics) An economic system in which activity is directly controlled by the government and the means of production are publicly owned.
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(Australia, informal, derogatory) Clipping of communist. [An advocate of a society based on the common ownership of property; a proponent of communism.]
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The socio-economic system based on such parties' ideologies.
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A member of a formally constituted Communist Party.
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To impose Communist ideals upon.
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Alternative form of commie [(derogatory, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.]
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A communist who advocates workers' councils
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(politics) A person with communist views they do not express publicly, often to avoid negative judgment.
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(Marxism, academia) Marxist analysis applied to culture and cultural phenomena.
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Any reform movement in which a national government aims to radically change its country's political, social, economical and cultural values.
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A left-wing ideology that aims to introduce democracy into the workforce, i.e. worker cooperatives, and ensure public provision of basic human needs.
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An advocate or supporter of democratic socialism or its ideologies.
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An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and imposing high tariffs on imported goods.
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An economic ideology, based on Catholic social teachings, according to which property ownership is a fundamental right and the means of production should be spread as widely as possible rather than being centralized under the control of the state, corporations, or a few individuals.
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The ideological belief in organising the economy on individual lines in such a way as to have the greatest possible number of economic decisions made by individuals or households and not by collective institutions or organisations.
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(Leninism) Working class political action that makes purely economic demands
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Of or pertaining to European nationalism.
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An ideological trend within various Western European communist parties in the 1970s and 1980s; a form of communism less aligned with Soviet communism and allegedly more relevant to Western European social conditions.
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A Fabian socialist, a gradualist socialist; a member of the Fabian Society.
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The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
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The political ideology of Antonio Gramsci
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(historical, US) A member of the Greenback Party, who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
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(politics, Marxism) A socialist doctrine that stresses the limited value of political, economic, and social reforms within a capitalist economy, arguing that the pursuit of such reforms strengthens support for the existing system.
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(communism) A member of any of various Trotskyist tendencies that hope to form bonds between workers of different countries
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(historical) A member or supporter of the Italian party after 1878 which called for the recovery of all Italian-speaking territories subject to other countries.
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(derogatory) Soviet Communism (Marxism-Leninism) when viewed, usually by people on the right wing, as a Jewish political ideology; Judeo-Bolshevism.
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(politics) The Trotskyite politics of Pierre Lambert.
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(Ireland, politics, historical) The syndicalist political philosophy of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, which espoused a mix of industrial unionism and socialist republicanism.
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The form of state socialism expounded by Ferdinand Lassalle
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The practice in otherwise free market capitalist economies in which the government steps in to bail out or otherwise subsidize weak or failing firms. A government attempting to transition from capitalism to socialism by this method takes control of the worst industries — the "lemons" — first, which undermines such an approach.
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(humorous, sometimes derogatory) Having left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.
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(economics) An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
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Any of a group of political philosophies dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, prominent examples being capitalism and the State; especially one that encourages the direct seizure by the people of the means of production with the aim of moving toward the creation of a radical direct democracy.
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(politics, Marxism) In Marxist theory, the ideological liquidation (negation) of the revolutionary party program or the hierarchical leadership by party members.
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A revolutionary theory within Marxism, favouring democracy and the necessity for a revolution as soon as possible.
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The ideological principle that societies are equivalent to the sum of the transactions made by the managements of organizations.
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(politics) A form of communism that also engages to a limited extent with the free market.
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An economic system involving the public, cooperative or social ownership of the means of production in the framework of a market economy.
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The socialist and communist theory of the followers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; a radical, revolutionary political philosophy that aims to capture state power, introduce a dictatorship of the proletariat, and then progress to communism.
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The study of the works of Karl Marx.
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(historical) A member of a radical Marxist party in Italy.
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(derogatory) The mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs, especially as opposed to communism.
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(now chiefly historical) A member of the gradualist or moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution, when they split with the Bolsheviks; or a member of a later independent moderate-Marxist party formed in 1917.
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A political ideology or ideological trend based on neoclassical economics that espouses economic liberalism, favouring trade liberalisation, financial deregulation, a small government, privatisation and liberalisation of government businesses, passive antitrust enforcement, accepting greater economic inequality and disfavouring unionisation.
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(communism) The glorification of manual laborers, often in opposition to the leadership of labor or socialist movements.
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(communism) An ideology or organization bearing similarities with communism.
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(communism, Internet slang) A supporter of socialist patriotism.
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A policy of political correctness.
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(communism) The theory that socialism can be obtained without the country first experiencing a period of capitalism. The revolution must furthermore become an agent for other anticapitalist revolutions around the globe, in part to secure the revolution abroad.
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(politics) Synonym of pink tide (“a tendency towards left-wing governments in Latin American democracies”).
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(informal, often derogatory, chiefly US) A socialist, particularly one who is not wholly communist.
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(communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming an member of the Party itself.
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A political stance in favour of communism.
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One who favours communism.
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An economy wherein the workers seemingly own the production means, or it is claimed to be, but practically does not.
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(in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
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A type of socialism which attempts to reach goals perceived to be feasible instead of aiming for the ultimate goals of Marxism-Leninism.
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A radical Bolshevik policy demanding that the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party cease all participation in legal state establishments and recall its representatives from the duma.
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(politics) A common symbol, usually in the form of a banner, for leftist revolutionary ideologies, especially socialism.
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(politics) Coordinated violence committed by communists, socialists, or other left-wing groups against (actual or perceived) class enemies.
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The political and economic philosophy of redistribution of wealth.
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Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution
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(socialism) Socialism that starts from the analysis of capitalism, revealing its inner workings and contradictions, in order to develop a plan to move from capitalism to socialism.
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A form of socialism that prioritises provision of public services and infrastructure, primarily associated with Milwaukee.
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A society based on this ideology.
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(politics, derogatory) A political ideology that uses socialist rhetoric but engages in imperialist actions.
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A system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.
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(socialism) The theory and practice of attaining socialism without world revolution.
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(historical, 1870s, derogatory) The policy, advocated by a group of German political economists, of state aid for the betterment of the working classes.
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(politics, historical) The political programme of mild democratization and liberalization, established in socialist Czechoslovakia in 1968, that led to the Prague Spring.
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Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating socialism.
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(politics) A political party which advocates socialist ideals.
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Taking under government control as implementing socialism.
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(countable, politics) a person who subscribes to the social credit political philosophy
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(historical) A political movement begun in the labor unions of Poland that contributed to the fall of Communism in that country.
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(humorous, nonstandard) Informal spelling of socialist. [Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating socialism.]
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A member of the modern Spartacist League, or International Communist League, a Trotskyist international organisation.
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(communism) The theory that society ought to pass gradually in order to arrive at communism: first through capitalism, then through socialism (the worker’s state).
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(communism) Of or pertaining to stagism.
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A system instituted in communist countries to encourage increased productivity
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The act or state of living in accord with the communist philosophies of Stalin.
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(historical) A member of the former Stalwarts Republican party of the United States during the Gilded Age.
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(socialism) Control of government and industry by labor unions, usually achieved through revolutionary direct action.
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(politics) the Coalition of the Radical Left, a Greek political party
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(politics) A socialist ideology, originating in Trotskyism, which aims to support the organised working class, as opposed to capitalism, or another prominent force, originally Stalinism and in the 1990s and 2000s often Islamism.
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(communism, historical) According to an obsolete theory, a period shortly after the Great Depression in which capitalism would be marked by further crises and then soon collapse.
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Alternative letter-case form of Third World [(historical, politics) Those countries not aligned with the west or the east during the Cold War.]
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(politics) The third camp socialist ideology.
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Any non-violent political revolution, especially the events in Czechoslovakia that led to the velvet divorce.
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(politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers: "We will resolutely uphold whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made, and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave."
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(politics) A political party; its name has been used by both organisations on the left and right of the political spectrum. It is currently used by followers of Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, social democracy, democratic socialism, socialism and Trotskyism.
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