User:IveGoneAway/Socioeconomic vocabulary

Not everyone thinks Palpatine is the bad guy, here. ("You rebel scum!")


 * "I'd say he knows a little more about Left Communism than you do, pal, because he invented it!"


 * Bourgeoisie/Bougie, people that own some property; more property than the poor, but not enough to be aristocrats, so, yeah, the irredeemable deplorable enemy of both classes.


 * Virtue → Alienation/Semiosis → Mimesis → Simulation


 * Popular sovereignty + Isaiah 40:4 → Levellers + Acts 4:32 → Diggers (1660s) → Diggers (1960s) → Free store


 * Kulaks, CDR, ESG bubble


 * Involution (bureaucracy), system of interdependent bureaucracies that exists only to perpetuate itself, e.g., Imperial China, China (PRC) (from entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy)


 * Red fascism (Mussolini meant it as a complement!)

Mao was generous to the Petite Bourgeoisie, believing them curable, in need only of re-education, while Obama called them "bitter clingers", Hillary called them "irredemable deplorables" (that is, Untermenschen), and Stalin called them Kulacks.

''So, if as a result of a particular alienation, a class believes that they have inalienable rights, they must be subjected to an alternative form of alienation until they are alienated from the belief in inalienable rights? (Mao's consideration of the higher peasants in first chapter of Little Red Book).
 * Inalienable - unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor
 * Alienation - a sense of being controlled or exploited, lack of identity with the products of one’s labor

Progressive timeline
A small reading assignment for my Kansas colleagues:

Progressive glossary

 * State
 * Any political entity that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence


 * Tribalism
 * The expanded family group owns everything collectively


 * Monarchy
 * The State owns everything, from which the Crown doles out grants


 * Bureaucracy
 * The State is regulated by system of self-ruled administrative organizations (e.g., the involuted Bureaucracies of Imperial China)


 * Capitalism
 * Investment of owned property, inclusive of personal labor, to increase owned property.


 * Slavery
 * Ownership of other person’s labor without compensation beyond physical sustenance, if that.


 * Wage Labor
 * Compensation of person’s labor


 * Liberalism
 * Limitation of the State (Crown and/or Church) authority over private individuals, i.e., natural right to life, liberty and property


 * Direct Democracy
 * The State is regulated by majority of private individuals


 * Republicanism
 * The State is regulated by an elected deliberative body


 * Communalism
 * All real property and labor in common, e.g., Monasticism, Utopianism


 * Socialism
 * No property owned by private individuals [Leo XIII, Rerum novarum, 1891]


 * Socialist Revolutionism
 * Socialism only by Revolution against Middle Class (elimination of existing systems)


 * Communism
 * Socialism justified by appeal to Class Retaliation [ibid.], i.e., Marxism


 * Bolshevism (Leninism)
 * Communist retaining certain systems, i.e., Bureaucratic Communism


 * Fascism
 * Socialist Revolution in single National State, regulated by organized physical violence


 * Stalinism
 * Bureaucratic Communist Revolution in single National State, regulated by State violence (Fascism with Russian characteristics [according to Mussolini])


 * Nazism
 * Socialist Revolution in Single-Race State (Fascism with "Arian" characteristics)


 * Maoism
 * Stalinism with Chinese characteristics (Sino-Soviet split directly resulted from De-Stalinization)


 * Ba'athism
 * Stalinism with Arab characteristics


 * Xism
 * Socialism with Chinese characteristics (including reverence for Stalin) [Wikipedia]

Not everyone thinks Stalin is the bad guy, here.