Revolutionary Left Dictionary part 2

[spice756]

Here is my dictionary that I use .Please do not bash me ,I'm still learning this stuff.And weak in English does not help me



mercantilism
an early modern European economic theory and system that actively supported the establishment of colonies that would supply materials and markets and relieve home nations of dependence on other nations


accumulation
number of things that have collected or been collected over a period of time


despotism
rule by a despot or tyrant

despot
a tyrant or ruler with absolute powers


fastened
secure something


ideological
Some thing to do with beliefs, values, or ideas

authoritarian
strict and demanding obedience


superextracting
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yoke on labor
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feudal
relating to feudalism

feudalism
the legal and social system that existed in medieval Europe, in which vassals held land from lords in exchange for military service

vassals
somebody who gave loyalty and homage to a feudal lord and received the right to occupy the lord's land and be protected by him

homage
show respect toward somebody

antithetical
expressing or constituting the complete or exact opposite

repressive
exerting strict control on the freedom of others


bureaucrats
government official

bureaucracy
complex rules and regulations applied rigidly in administrative system, especially in a government

explicitly
clear and obvious

implicitly
not stated, but understood in what is expressed


disorientation
to confuse somebody by giving misleading information

professed
declare something the statement up

expulsion
dismissal from a place or membership,the forcing out of somebody or something from something


detrimental
causing damage, harm, or disadvantage


albeit
used to introduce a statement that modifies a statement just made

bureaucratic
applying rules rigidly within an administrative system or government

plundered or plunder
to rob a place or the people living there, or steal goods using violence and often causing damage, especially in wartime or during civil unrest

pretentions
self-important and special

neoliberalism
the political view, arising in the 1960s, that emphasizes the importance of economic growth and asserts that social justice is best maintained by minimal government interference and free market forces

neoconservative
somebody who, during the mid-1980s, began to support conservatism in society, and in politics in particular, as a reaction to the social freedoms sought throughout the 1960s and early 1970s


democracy
free and equal representation of people

chauvinism
sense of superiority

impatience
annoyed or tending to be annoyed at being kept waiting

vigilant
Any group that is watchful and alert, especially to guard against danger the KGB

reactionary
opposed social progressive

totalitarian
centralized and dictatorial: relating to or operating a centralized government system in which a single party without opposition rules over political, economic, social, and cultural life

vanguard
Is to advance move

Lobbying
group or intrest group trying to influence policy by giving money doing campaining

Keep in mind rallies and speeches are not Lobbying.Only when you give money to a politician doing election time

bourgeois
affluent middle-class exploiting the working class


communism
the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless society by all the members of that society

classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production and property in general


Communism states that the only way to solve these problems would be for the working class, or proletariat, to replace the wealthy bourgeoisie, which is currently the ruling class, in order to establish a peaceful, free society, without classes, or government

The dominant forms of communism, such as Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism and Trotskyism are based on Marxism, but non-Marxist versions of communism (such as Christian communism and anarchist communism) also exist and are growing.

Communism is the idea of a free society with no division or alienation, where mankind is free from oppression and scarcity. A communist society would have no governments, countries, or class divisions. In Marxism-Leninism, Socialism is the intermediate system between capitalism and communism, when the government is in the process of changing the means of ownership from privatism, to collective ownership


Dialectics

A science used to explain the way nature and societies change

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[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Spice756:


Dialectics

A science used to explain the way nature and societies change

1) It's not a science; it's far too confused to be classified as one.

2) If dialectics were true, change would be impossible:

http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1401000&postcount=76

http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1401001&postcount=77

[mikelepore]

yoke on labor
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A yoke is a tool fastened around the necks of two horses, two oxen, two bulls, etc., so they will stay together while pulling a wagon or a plow. Sometimes the word is used as a metaphor for labor being oppressed.

[mikelepore]

bourgeois
affluent middle-class exploiting the working class

It is not a middle class in modern times. It means capitalists. They were a middle class in the days when they had aristocrats above them and workers below them. When they abolished the monarchies and aristocracies, this put the bourgeoisie on top. Further industrialization also tended to put them on top, like the gradual replacement of the village blacksmith by the international steel corporation.

[mikelepore]

Lobbying
group or intrest group trying to influence policy by giving money doing campaining

Keep in mind rallies and speeches are not Lobbying.Only when you give money to a politician doing election time.

Not only at election time. Lobbyists apply influence to law-makers during their whole time in political office. For example the tobacco company lobby, the American Medical Association representing the interests of doctors, the military weapons manufacturers, etc., are among the big lobbies in the U.S. Their agents make appointments to visit the offices of members of the U.S. Congress and the state legislatures, and bring them gifts such as free airplane tickets and receipts for expense-paid hotels and vacation resorts around the world. In return for the gifts, they expect to be able to talk to the law-makers for a few minutes about the reasons why laws in their favor should be enacted, and laws that are inconvenient to them should be repealed.

[mikelepore]

superextracting
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A term used by companies that advertise their machines that squeeze fruit to make juice, or squeeze wet clothes to remove most of the water. In the post that you may have read in this forum where someone said "superextracting" as well as the phrase "yoke on labor" ( Link (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1213435&postcount=141) ), the writer was talking about bosses "squeezing" a lot of profits out of workers.

[mikelepore]

chauvinism
sense of superiority


Not really superiority, but patriotism or nationalism, to the point where it becomes obvious to others how fanatical and unreasonable it is. It refers to Nicolas Chauvin, whom many historians believe was a myth, he didn't really exist. He was said to be a French soldier in the 1700s who was so patriotic that the only thing he wanted to do was fight and perhaps get killed to serve Napoleon. The more he suffered, the more loyal he became.

The word became popular in the 1960s when writers and speakers of the women's movement used the phrase "male chauvinism." It wasn't exactly the right word for the intended purpose, unless someone is actually arguing that male oppression of women is based on a feeling of loyalty to the male population, similar to patriotism.

[mikelepore]

vigilant
Any group that is watchful and alert, especially to guard against danger the KGB

The KGB isn't part of the meaning, although the people in the KGB, or their opponents, may be vigilant.

Originally it refers to an ancient tradition where Jews and Christians sometimes stay awake all night and pray. They say that they are "holding a vigil."

Other forms of alertness have been compared to this.

When the U.S. founder Thomas Jefferson wanted to make the point that people can keep their liberty only as long as they are alert to protect it from those who would take it away, he said, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

In 'Capital', chapter 15, Karl Marx discusses how the workers on the job are pressured to work faster and more intensely. He quotes a report that says "the extent of vigilance and attention on the part of the workmen was hardly capable of being increased...."

Marx used the word again in a similar way in his book 'The Poverty of Philosophy', chapter 2. He wrote: "The grand object therefore of the modern manufacturer is, through the union of capital and science, to reduce the task of his workpeople to the exercise of vigilance and dexterity -- faculties, when concentrated to one process, speedily brought to perfection in the young."

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Do you know how to quickly get the definition of any English word? Go to google.com and type this in the white box, "define" followed by a colon (:) and then the word. Example:

define:vigilance