Communist Terminology

[Dóchas]

im currently making a website for people who are new to communism or people who just want to learn more about it and i thought that a page explaining communist terminology eg vanguard, proletariat, class stuggle

i think we all know a couple so i would appreciate it if you could post some communist terminology in simple to understand wording so i can educate people further. i appreciate any help :)

[LOLseph Stalin]

Well I can define a few.

Proletariat: the working class, oppressed by the bourgeoisie

Vanguard: revolutionary party, leads the proletarian revolution. Belief held by Lenin that in order for the revolution to be successful it had to be led by trained revolutionaries.

bourgeoisie: the ruling class(obviously the one we want to eliminate)

I know others, but it's late and my brain hurts.

[Q]

The Marxist Internet Archive (http://marxists.org) has an encyclopedia full with communist terms.
It might be better that your site just links to the relevant terms?

[Dóchas]

maybe if you guys gave some terms and i just go off and research them because i know im going to miss a few

[eyedrop]

You could also check out the revolutionary dictionary (http://www.revleft.com/vb/revolutionaryleft-dictionary-t18401/index.html) that TAT made and stickied in the OI

[Dóchas]

thanks thats really helpful. marxist.org is good but its wording can be kinda confusing and intimidating even for me so i cant imagine what it would be like for people new to communism. thanks :thumbup1:

[LOLseph Stalin]

I can try to help you make this webpage.

[Drace]

I think a professional site that introduces communism to the people would be great. All of the commie sites I know of are for experienced peeps.

[Dóchas]

thanks it will take a while but hopefully ill get it up and running in the next couple of months or so i just need to find the time

[Q]

thanks it will take a while but hopefully ill get it up and running in the next couple of months or so i just need to find the time

A couple of months?

Howto setup a website:
1. you register a domain name at some company and buy hosting
2. you install a content management system on said hosting (Joomla for example (http://www.joomla.org/)) and configure it to your tastes
3. you put content on website

How does this take months :confused:

[Dóchas]

A couple of months?

Howto setup a website:
1. you register a domain name at some company and buy hosting
2. you install a content management system on said hosting (Joomla for example (http://www.joomla.org/)) and configure it to your tastes
3. you put content on wensite

How does this take months :confused:

because i have a life

[ZeroNowhere]

because i have a life
How disappointing. :rolleyes:

[Dóchas]

How disappointing. :rolleyes:

I know!! my dedication to leftism is appaling :rolleyes:

[Dóchas]

ok if people just give me words that they think i should include and i just look for meanings myself any contributions would be greatly appreciated

[Q]

ok if people just give me words that they think i should include and i just look for meanings myself any contributions would be greatly appreciated

Maybe this helps (http://www.marxists.org/subject/students/index.htm).

[Dóchas]

ye a bit thanks im gradually getting terms together and then ill see which ones are most relavent to beginners...thanks again

[LOLseph Stalin]

It would probably be good for beginniers to know about the different types of communism like Leninism, Maoism, etc...

[Dóchas]

ye i was thinking of doing something lik this but maybe a bit longer

http://www.revleft.com/vb/revolutionaryleft-dictionary-t18401/index.html

[mikelepore]

I emailed the following comment to the author of the "revleft dictionary" sticky topic.

subject: comment on revleft dictionary

This definition in the revleft dictionary is incorrect:
"Reformism
A name given to politics which means to change society through a legal process ie parliment and the judicial system."

The difference between reform and revolution has to do with how fundamental the changes are. If we keep basically the same social system, but make surface or cosmetic changes, that's reform. If we have a change to an outcome with fundamentally differently structure and principles, that's revolution.

The distinction has nothing to do with whether the changes are legal or illegal, or made through the legislative system or not, or made through the judicial system or not, or slow or fast, or peaceful or violent, etc., etc. The only distinction is how fundamentally different the result is.

Reformism means to seek to preserve the present socioeconomic system fundamentally, but change some of it external manifestations.

[Dóchas]

THNAK YOU!!! finally i have what i was looking for, a word beginners need and a description of what it is. thanks also to recommobile and q-collective

[Dóchas]

man i feel like an idiot for asking this but if i want to publish my website and put it on google or something will i have to pay because if i do im in trouble??:confused:

[Q]

man i feel like an idiot for asking this but if i want to publish my website and put it on google or something will i have to pay because if i do im in trouble??:confused:

No, Google will pick you up pretty soon. You don't pay a dime or it.

[Dóchas]

But i was just reading about publishing you website and its goin on about "finding the cheapest server" like i have to pay something. sorry iv never done something like this so its pretty new to me

[Q]

But i was just reading about publishing you website and its goin on about "finding the cheapest server" like i have to pay something. sorry iv never done something like this so its pretty new to me

Oh, you're talking about webhosting. In my experience hostgator.com is a good hoster. But if you want free hosting, I guess you can google for it.

[Dóchas]

but ur saying i can just publish it?

[mikelepore]

I've been working on a glossary of terms also, but with emphasis on how words are used in the De Leonist interpretation of Marxism.

http://deleonism.org/glossary.htm

[Dóchas]

wow thats really impressive. i dont think mine will be that considerable in size im just setting up a website to give learners a good foothold in theory. do you mind if i use that in a part of my site and also make a link to it?

btw how long did that take you?

[cop an Attitude]

If this site could have a list of organizations rooted in the left that would be great too. I often am left woundering what these random acronyms people throw around mean. I know the basics but a lot of the international ones I have trouble on. maybe a timeline of communist and anarchist history too. make it a good learning tool for all, not just beginners :cool:.

[Dóchas]

If this site could have a list of organizations rooted in the left that would be great too. I often am left woundering what these random acronyms people throw around mean. I know the basics but a lot of the international ones I have trouble on. maybe a timeline of communist and anarchist history too. make it a good learning tool for all, not just beginners :cool:.

ye i was gonna do a page at the end with helpfull links to good sites and iv just thought that i could do some links to left wing parties in different countries. im not to sure about the timeline because im still learning myself but maybe if somone made an outline of important events i might do it. thats a good idea though

[cop an Attitude]

I have had to work on a website from that start in my computers class. It was a class project and I did all the networking for the site. Make sure that if you want to get the sites name out, atleast a bit, advertise it on various sites, maybe revleft. Dont rely on google hits alone because sites pay for their placement on basic google searches most of the time. I know sites often do free pluging too, that is you advertise them and they will do the same. same kinda thing that killed the .com boom, but they paid for plugs.

[Dóchas]

ye i was goin to advertise it here and on so other social networking sites im on and hopefully that will keep it going but thanks for the advise. iv just realised this is gonna take a lot longer than i expected!!

[mikelepore]

wow thats really impressive. i dont think mine will be that considerable in size im just setting up a website to give learners a good foothold in theory. do you mind if i use that in a part of my site and also make a link to it?

(Assuming that you're talking to me...) I don't want people to simply copy pages from my site, because a lot of it is my personal opinion, and because some of it is copyrighted material that I reproduce with the written permission of publishing companies, and because I need to fix errors in the master copy as I become aware of those errors.

Wherever my site reproduces a 100+ year old work of literature, it's clear that the copyright is expired, and the document now belongs to the whole world.

As for linking to my page, no one needs anyone's permission to link to anything online. And everyone appreciates incoming links.

After you link to me, let me know so that I can link back to you. This reciprocal linking improves both site's google search rank, if the two sites are about the same topic, although it reduces google search rank if the sites are about different topics.


btw how long did that take you?

About a half a minute per day, for a year and a half.

[mikelepore]

You said you are new at web development. Be advised that there are specific methods to improve your rank in google searches, so you'll be as close as possible to to page-one search results. The most important is to use keywords in the <title> tag, for example, if you had a page about pet snakes, a good title tag would be "Pet snakes, care for reptiles, and feeding serpents." Never use unnecessary phrases in the title tag, such as "my home page", etc. The second rule is to use an <h1> header that contains exactly the same phrase as the <title> tag. The third rule is to begin the first few hundred bytes on each page with a paragraph <p> tag, which contains complete and grammatically correct sentences formed out of several keywords. But if you pack too many keywords there, so that the google software detects that it's obvious you're trying to cheat, it will lower your search rank as a penalty.

[Q]

You said you are new at web development. Be advised that there are specific methods to improve your rank in google searches, so you'll be as close as possible to to page-one search results. The most important is to use keywords in the <title> tag, for example, if you had a page about pet snakes, a good title tag would be "Pet snakes, care for reptiles, and feeding serpents." Never use unnecessary phrases in the title tag, such as "my home page", etc. The second rule is to use an <h1> header that contains exactly the same phrase as the <title> tag. The third rule is to begin the first few hundred bytes on each page with a paragraph <p> tag, which contains complete and grammatically correct sentences formed out of several keywords. But if you pack too many keywords there, so that the google software detects that it's obvious you're trying to cheat, it will lower your search rank as a penalty.
Yes, beware that Google is not kind on cheating websites.

Also, extending on the international remark, it would be nice to have a world map (a wiki?) on which you can click on each country and get extensive information of left organisations in said country.

It would sure help a lot.

[Dóchas]

(Assuming that you're talking to me...) I don't want people to simply copy pages from my site, because a lot of it is my personal opinion, and because some of it is copyrighted material that I reproduce with the written permission of publishing companies, and because I need to fix errors in the master copy as I become aware of those errors.

Wherever my site reproduces a 100+ year old work of literature, it's clear that the copyright is expired, and the document now belongs to the whole world.

As for linking to my page, no one needs anyone's permission to link to anything online. And everyone appreciates incoming links.

After you link to me, let me know so that I can link back to you. This reciprocal linking improves both site's google search rank, if the two sites are about the same topic, although it reduces google search rank if the sites are about different topics.



About a half a minute per day, for a year and a half.

oh dont worry i wont just copy and paste it im just using it as a resource to put info on my site.

ok it might take a while but in the end i will definitley link your site to mine i was amazed at the size of it

[Dóchas]

You said you are new at web development. Be advised that there are specific methods to improve your rank in google searches, so you'll be as close as possible to to page-one search results. The most important is to use keywords in the <title> tag, for example, if you had a page about pet snakes, a good title tag would be "Pet snakes, care for reptiles, and feeding serpents." Never use unnecessary phrases in the title tag, such as "my home page", etc. The second rule is to use an <h1> header that contains exactly the same phrase as the <title> tag. The third rule is to begin the first few hundred bytes on each page with a paragraph <p> tag, which contains complete and grammatically correct sentences formed out of several keywords. But if you pack too many keywords there, so that the google software detects that it's obvious you're trying to cheat, it will lower your search rank as a penalty.

ok im not sure what the <h1> header is that like a URL?

and what is <p> tag?

sorry if this sounds stupid im pretty new to this :blushing:

[Dóchas]

Yes, beware that Google is not kind on cheating websites.

Also, extending on the international remark, it would be nice to have a world map (a wiki?) on which you can click on each country and get extensive information of left organisations in said country.

It would sure help a lot.

ye i was goin to have a list of countries and the left wing parties in them but thats a good idea, thanks

[mikelepore]

ok im not sure what the <h1> header is that like a URL?

and what is <p> tag?

People need to type HTML (hypertext markup language) if they create a web page from scratch without, using software to do it. If you use software to create your page, and then you use a text editor like notepad to look at the document that the software has created, you will see these codes. Even if people use software to create it all, sometimes they find it useful to go back and manually edit the document that the software has produced.

The language that produces a web page has a structure something like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>This is the title that you see in the blue stripe at the top of the browser</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a large header typed across the screen, such as the name of the site</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p>This is another paragraph</p>
<p>This is another paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>

In that simple example, I have omitted the pretty stuff, such as font sizes, colors, margins, images, etc.

[mikelepore]

sorry if this sounds stupid im pretty new to this

Everyone here will be very happy to answer technical questions if they know the answers. Later when you run into technical problems, I guess the forum here named "DIY" would be a good place to start a new topic and ask how to do things.

[Q]

Or you could use a content management system like Joomla to do the html stuff for you.

[Dóchas]

im really sorry to say this but i dont think i will be able to do this. im completely out of my depth on this and i really dont have any experience with computers to help me on this. sorry to waste your time and i appreciate all of you input but i dont think i have the know how to do this.

[Q]

im really sorry to say this but i dont think i will be able to do this. im completely out of my depth on this and i really dont have any experience with computers to help me on this. sorry to waste your time and i appreciate all of you input but i dont think i have the know how to do this.

Well, don't give up. Learn by trial :)

[Dóchas]

i think i will revisit this idea at a later time when i am more experienced with computers and website design and also when im more educated in left wing thinking

[Q]

Quitter :closedeyes:

[Dóchas]

call me what you want but i cant see any way of me doing this trust me i really want to do this but i dont see how i can do this

[Q]

That is what learning is all about. If you don't try, you don't learn.

[Dóchas]

i tried and failed it but the next time ill do it better

[mikelepore]

Almost any wordprocessor, including Microsoft Word and Microsoft Works documents, when you type and save any file, you can click "file", "save as...", and then choose the HTML option. You just produced a document that can be uploaded to a web host. There are lots of people here who would host your files for free. So if the technology is an obstacle right now, just keep accumulating knowledge and making notes and doing your creative writing. After your have some content written, you're almost done.

[Dóchas]

ok...well im gonna keep compiling info and put some stuff together and if someone else wants to make a website for beginners ill happily give them my stuff but for me i think it was a bit too ambitious of me to jump into it like that. thanks again to everyone who helped me out :)