Capital
(generally) Anything which is used to procure or extract surplus value. Capital is not a static definition, but rather constitutes an economic
Glossary of Marxism-Leninism
Capitalism
A mode of production in which the private ownership of the means of production predominates, and under which the only logic of
Capitalist
Another word for an “owner,” that is, a member of the bourgeoisie; i.e., someone who owns capital but does not support themselves
Capitalist state
Any state which operates as a class dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeois republic is one form of a capitalist state. The
Causes, the four
Aristotle posited four logical causes for any phenomenon to help analyze that phenomenon: 1. Material causes are those things which are