| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
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| Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States; an active terrorist group during the 1980s |
17 November
,
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
|
| conservative advocate of capitalism |
capitalist
|
| extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States |
ELA
,
Revolutionary People's Struggle
|
| United States political philosopher (born in Germany) concerned about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology (1898-1979) |
Herbert Marcuse
,
Marcuse
|
| former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I |
I.W.W.
,
Industrial Workers of the World
,
IWW
|
| political and economic theories of Lenin which provided the guiding doctrine of the Soviet Union; the modification of Marxism by Lenin stressed that imperialism is the highest form of capitalism (which shifts the struggle from developed to underdeveloped |
Leninism
,
Marxism-Leninism
|
| economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by |
Marxism
|
| English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962) |
Richard Henry Tawney
,
Tawney
|
| belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means |
social democracy
|
| political party in Germany and Britain (and elsewhere) founded in late 19th century; originally Marxist; now advocates the gradual transformation of capitalism into democratic socialism |
Social Democratic Party
|
| economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed |
state socialism
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| capitalism that invests in innovative enterprises (especially high technology) where the potential profits are large |
venture capitalism
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