Capitalism: an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and goods and services are produced for profit in a free market
Free Market: people are free to use/sell their private property without outside interference
Profit Motive: the desire to produce goods in order to gain more wealth
Ideology: a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
Mecantilism: a system of trade for profit. European merchants, backed by governments, made profits from the buying and selling of goods
Industrial Capitalism: an economic system that relies on investment of capital in machines and technology that are used to increase production of marketable goods
Fascism: A class of political ideologies that takes it name from the movement led by Benito Mussolini who took power in Italy in 1922. The ideas include militant nationalism, charismatic leaders, national unity, anti-communism, contempt for democracy, glorification of physical strength, propaganda and a aggressive foreign policy.
Nationalism: An ideology, based on the premise that each nation constitutes a natural political community whose members should all live together under the authority of their own independent nation state.
Socialism: A class of ideologies favoring an economic system in which all or most productive resources are the property of the government, in which the production and distribution of goods and services are administered primarily by the government rather than by private enterprise, and in which any remaining private production and distribution is heavily regulated by the government rather than by market processes
Stalinism: Polices of Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party and state leader from 1929 until his death in 1953. Stalinism is associated with a regime of terror. It is a Marxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), one of the leading theoreticians of the Russian Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian Revolution and totalitarian rule. It became to represent whatever ideology Stalin wished it to represent.
Totalitarianism: A state dominated by a single, like-minded governing elite of all organised political, economic, social and cultural activities in a country by means of a single-party monopoly of power, police repression not only of all forms of dissent and opposition by also all form of independent private organizations as such, rigorous censorship of the mass media, centralized sate planning and administration of the economy, and pervasive propaganda to inculcate the principles of the obligatory official ideology.
Marxist-Leninism: A variant of socialism which emphasizes that a truly communist society can be achieved only through the violent overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" that is to prepare the way for the future idealized society of communism under the authoritarian guidance of a hierarchical and disciplined Communist Party.
Maoism: A doctrine composed of the ideology and methodology for revolution developed by Mao Zedong and his associates in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s until Mao’s death in 1976. It has clearly represented a revolutionary method based on a distinct revolutionary outlook not necessarily dependent on a Chinese or Marxist-Leninist context
Leninism: Marxist principles expounded by Vladimir Lenin, who was the preeminent figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Whether these concepts represented a contribution to or a corruption of Marxist thought has been debated, but their influence on the subsequent development of communism in the Soviet Union and elsewhere has been of fundamental importance.
Capitalism: A form of economic order characterised by private ownership of the means of production and freedom of private owners to use, buy and sell their property or services on the free market at voluntarily agreed prices and terms, with only minimal interference in transactions by the state or anyone else.
Imperialism: The state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.
Communism: Any ideology based on the communal ownership of all property and a classless social structure, with economic production and distribution to be directed and regulated by means of an authoritative economic plan that supposedly embodies the interests of the community as a whole.
Trotskyism: A Marxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky, one of the leading theoreticians of the Russian Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian Revolution.
Dictatorship: Government by a single person (or group) whose discretion in using the powers and resources of the state is unrestrained by any fixed legal or constitutional rules and who is in no effective way held responsible to the general population or their elected representatives
Authoritarianism: Is a form of government, which is characterized by the principles of blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. In government, it denotes any political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people.
Free Market: people are free to use/sell their private property without outside interference
Profit Motive: the desire to produce goods in order to gain more wealth
Ideology: a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
Mecantilism: a system of trade for profit. European merchants, backed by governments, made profits from the buying and selling of goods
Industrial Capitalism: an economic system that relies on investment of capital in machines and technology that are used to increase production of marketable goods
Fascism: A class of political ideologies that takes it name from the movement led by Benito Mussolini who took power in Italy in 1922. The ideas include militant nationalism, charismatic leaders, national unity, anti-communism, contempt for democracy, glorification of physical strength, propaganda and a aggressive foreign policy.
Nationalism: An ideology, based on the premise that each nation constitutes a natural political community whose members should all live together under the authority of their own independent nation state.
Socialism: A class of ideologies favoring an economic system in which all or most productive resources are the property of the government, in which the production and distribution of goods and services are administered primarily by the government rather than by private enterprise, and in which any remaining private production and distribution is heavily regulated by the government rather than by market processes
Stalinism: Polices of Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party and state leader from 1929 until his death in 1953. Stalinism is associated with a regime of terror. It is a Marxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), one of the leading theoreticians of the Russian Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian Revolution and totalitarian rule. It became to represent whatever ideology Stalin wished it to represent.
Totalitarianism: A state dominated by a single, like-minded governing elite of all organised political, economic, social and cultural activities in a country by means of a single-party monopoly of power, police repression not only of all forms of dissent and opposition by also all form of independent private organizations as such, rigorous censorship of the mass media, centralized sate planning and administration of the economy, and pervasive propaganda to inculcate the principles of the obligatory official ideology.
Marxist-Leninism: A variant of socialism which emphasizes that a truly communist society can be achieved only through the violent overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" that is to prepare the way for the future idealized society of communism under the authoritarian guidance of a hierarchical and disciplined Communist Party.
Maoism: A doctrine composed of the ideology and methodology for revolution developed by Mao Zedong and his associates in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s until Mao’s death in 1976. It has clearly represented a revolutionary method based on a distinct revolutionary outlook not necessarily dependent on a Chinese or Marxist-Leninist context
Leninism: Marxist principles expounded by Vladimir Lenin, who was the preeminent figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Whether these concepts represented a contribution to or a corruption of Marxist thought has been debated, but their influence on the subsequent development of communism in the Soviet Union and elsewhere has been of fundamental importance.
Capitalism: A form of economic order characterised by private ownership of the means of production and freedom of private owners to use, buy and sell their property or services on the free market at voluntarily agreed prices and terms, with only minimal interference in transactions by the state or anyone else.
Imperialism: The state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.
Communism: Any ideology based on the communal ownership of all property and a classless social structure, with economic production and distribution to be directed and regulated by means of an authoritative economic plan that supposedly embodies the interests of the community as a whole.
Trotskyism: A Marxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky, one of the leading theoreticians of the Russian Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian Revolution.
Dictatorship: Government by a single person (or group) whose discretion in using the powers and resources of the state is unrestrained by any fixed legal or constitutional rules and who is in no effective way held responsible to the general population or their elected representatives
Authoritarianism: Is a form of government, which is characterized by the principles of blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. In government, it denotes any political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people.