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| value invested in any human-made good that can be used by another individual. Exploitation results when one person or group extracts surplus value from another |
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| IMPORTANT-economic system of a society, made up of technology (means of production) and class relations between people (relations of production) |
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| NOT IMPORTANT- all noneconomic relations (ex: religion, culture, national identity) |
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| failure to understand nature of ones exploitation |
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| process of historical change that is not evolutionary but revolutionary. Existing base and superstructure (thesis) comes in conflict with new innovations, growing tensions between exploiters and exploited (antithesis) resulting in REVOLUTION |
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| dictatorship of proletariat |
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| temp period after capitalism has been overthrown where bits of old base and superstructure are eradicated |
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| according to marxists, final stage of history once capitalism is overthrown and proletariat destroys its remaining vestiges |
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| Lenin's argument that elite communist party would have to carry out revolution b/c of false consciousness, historical conditions wouldnt automatically lead to capitalism's demise |
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