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CONFUSING WORDS
Bourgeoisie:
is the class of modern Capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. The bourgeoisie developed out of feudalism and will be destroyed by the proletariat, whom they necessary exploit on account of their economic position.
Proletariat:
is class of modern-wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. The proletariat developed as a result of bourgeois capitalism, but their economic condition deteriorates as the bourgeois economic condition improves. This reciprocal relationship will eventually cause the proletariat to rise up and destroy the bourgeoisie.
Dialectic:
A process by which one element, the thesis, is contradicted by an opposing element, the antithesis. This contradiction is resolved by a synthesis of the thesis and antithesis.
Capital:
Money, or the bourgeois form of private property used to produce wealth. Exchange of capital replaces the exchange of commodities in feudal economies. Labor is valued in terms of capital, and workers receive monetary wages in compensation for their work.
Capitalism:
An economic system based on the exchange of capital. (LOADA SHITE)
Socialism:
A social system which favors collective ownership of the means of economic production and distribution.
Communism: A form of socialism proposed by Karl Marx which intends to effect socialist reforms by advocating a revolution of the proletariat.
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