| Term | Definition |
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| communism | a political or governmental ideology that states that the communist party has the final authority to make laws |
| democracy | a political (governmental) ideology that believes the people that the final authority to make laws |
| capitalism | the ECONOMIC belief (ideology) that the means of production are control by private ownership (aka free enterprise or private enterprise) |
| socialism | the economic belief (ideology) that 1-the government is responsible for the social welfare (housing, medicine/healthcare) 2-the government controls or regulates the economy by owning (pure socialism) the means of production (land, resources, capital, transportation) |
| Marxism | pure communism; an ideology created by the Communist Manifesto/Karl Marx and Fred Engels (it never happened) |
| economic animal | the marxist idea that man makes decisions based on materialist interests, not religious ideals or ethics of right and wrong |
| bourgeoisie | the upper class |
| proletariat | a lower class person |
| inevitable | impossible to avoid; bound to occur |
| abuses of capitalism | child labor, dangerous and uncomfortable conditions, very long hours and little pay, unemployment during recessonis, depressions, illness, injury |
| exploit | the bourgeoisie keeping their wealth at expense to the lower class |
| Communist Manifesto | the beliefs of pure communism put down on paper; written by Karl Marx and Fred Engels |
| Karl Marx | the author of the Communist Manifesto |
| Fred Engels | the co-author along with Karl Marx of the Communist Manifesto |
| 1848 | the year that Karl Marx and Fred Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto |
| ideology | a formal set of beliefs usually written down often in a manifesto or a group or book of articles |
| *communists | socialist radicals who believed change must come through violence |
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