Marxist
Proletarian revolution advocate
A Marxist is someone who follows the political and economic theories of Karl Marx, which center on class struggle, critique of capitalism, and the eventual transition to collective ownership of the means of production.
As an adjective, Marxist describes things relating to these ideas: Marxist theory, Marxist analysis.
The term ranges from neutral academic description to political accusation depending on context.
She took a Marxist approach to literary criticism.
German socialist theorist
- LeninSoviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- GramsciPrison Notebooks author
- LuxemburgWestern European grand duchy
Mao · Althusser · Che Guevara · Castro · Ho Chi Minh · Adorno · Harvey · Jameson
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- class consciousnessAwareness of economic group identity
- wage laborWork exchanged for payment
working class · ruling class · lumpenproletariat · class warfare · classless society · exploitation · stratification · inequality
Collective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- central planningGovernment directs all production
- state ownershipGovernment possession of assets
internationalism · anti-capitalism · collectivization · nationalization · planned economy · party line · cadre · collectivism
Lenin's revolutionary party
- MensheviksRussian moderate socialist faction
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- CominternSoviet-led communist alliance
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
trade unionism · syndicalism · Maoism · Leninism · Trotskyism · liberation theology · New Left
State of being isolated
- ideologyStructured belief framework
- false consciousnessInternalized ideology against self-interest
- praxisCustomary action or application
- contradictionOpposing claims, incompatible together
negation · totality · reification · objectification · critique · materialism · determinism · consciousness
Wealth used for investment
- surplus valueProduction minus wages paid
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
- commodity fetishismObjects veil production relations
Organized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
counterrevolution · revolutionary · liberation · class war · armed struggle · general strike
Engels
German socialist theorist
Luxemburg · Mao · Althusser · Che Guevara · Castro · Ho Chi Minh · Adorno · Harvey · Jameson · Stalin
proletariat
Laborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- class consciousnessAwareness of economic group identity
wage labor · working class · ruling class · lumpenproletariat · class warfare · classless society · exploitation · stratification · inequality · precariat
communism
Collective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- central planningGovernment directs all production
state ownership · internationalism · anti-capitalism · collectivization · nationalization · planned economy · party line · cadre · collectivism · Bolshevism
Bolsheviks
Lenin's revolutionary party
- MensheviksRussian moderate socialist faction
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- CominternSoviet-led communist alliance
labor movement · trade unionism · syndicalism · Maoism · Leninism · Trotskyism · liberation theology · New Left
alienation
State of being isolated
- ideologyStructured belief framework
- false consciousnessInternalized ideology against self-interest
- praxisCustomary action or application
contradiction · negation · totality · reification · objectification · critique · materialism · determinism · consciousness · hegemony
capital
Wealth used for investment
- surplus valueProduction minus wages paid
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
commodity fetishism · accumulation · wage slavery · overproduction · imperialism
uprising
Organized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
Red Army · counterrevolution · revolutionary · liberation · class war · armed struggle · general strike
- EponymsDarwinian, Alzheimer's disease, Freudian slip, cardigan, Parkinson's disease
- thinkersthinkers, thinker, philosophers, philosopher, Aristotle
- communismLeninism, Lenin, proletariat, Engels, Stalinism
- political ideologiesconservatism, conservative, anarchism, liberalism, liberal
- CommunistsEngels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Trotsky
- leftismsocialism, communism, leftist, socialist, anarchism
Marxistcapitalist
Private ownership supporter
neoliberal · libertarian · supply-sider · monetarist · corporatist
Marxistanti-communist
Opposing collectivist state ideology
reactionary · conservative · fascist · capitalist · right-winger
- Marxist thoughtPhilosophy of class conflict
- Marxist theoryFramework analyzing class conflict
- Marxist regimeGovernment based on class struggle
- Marxist ideologyRevolutionary working-class philosophy
- Marxist analysisClass-based social examination
- Marxist economicsClass-based critique of capitalism