Some of us might find this useful for communicating ideas.
Without a shared understanding of terms REAL discussions are basically impossible.
Now I completely get that for some of us the purposeful distortion of word meaning is a useful tool for cr3eating propaganda.
but I definiitely DO believe that some of us would like to actually discuss issues rationally, so this dictionary might be of use.
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
For example here's three words that are so often misused by the uneducated here as to make most many of our political discussions nearly impossible:
SOCIALISM
A political doctrine that upholds the principle of collectivity, rather than individualism, as the foundation for economic and social life. Socialists favour state and co-operative ownership of economic resources, equality of economic condition and democratic rule and management of economic and social institutions. See: SOCIAL DEMOCRACY / .
COMMUNISM
A political theory that advocates collective ownership of the means of production (resources, land and capital), abolition of private property and equalisation of incomes. Communism differs from socialism because it contemplates revolutionary social change rather than just electoral politics. The first modern communist society was established in Russia after the revolution of 1917 and this political system was imposed by the Soviet Union, after the second world war, on many countries of Eastern Europe. In Asia, a successful communist-led revolution in China in 1949 led to the growth of communist regimes and political movements in other areas, including Korea, Vietnam and Malaysia. These centralized and dictatorial communist systems were far from the model societies envisaged by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels who believed that a communist revolution would create co-operative collective ownership a true community-based democracy and a weakening of the role of the state . See: SOCIALISM / .
FASCISM
A political doctrine opposed to democracy and demanding submission to political leadership and authority. A key principle of fascism is the belief that the whole society has a shared destiny and purpose which can only be achieved by iron discipline, obedience to leadership and an all-powerful state. Fascism first developed in Italy, under the leadership of Benito Mussolini (dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943) and later influenced the development of German fascism in the Nazi movement led by Adolf Hitler (dictator of Germany from 1933-1945) . While fascism increases the power and role of the state in society and suppresses free trade unions and political opposition, it preserves private ownership and private property.
I hope some of us will find this dictionary a useful tool that we can refer to when we want to describe a complex political idealogy or thought.
Without a shared understanding of terms REAL discussions are basically impossible.
Now I completely get that for some of us the purposeful distortion of word meaning is a useful tool for cr3eating propaganda.
but I definiitely DO believe that some of us would like to actually discuss issues rationally, so this dictionary might be of use.
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
For example here's three words that are so often misused by the uneducated here as to make most many of our political discussions nearly impossible:
SOCIALISM
A political doctrine that upholds the principle of collectivity, rather than individualism, as the foundation for economic and social life. Socialists favour state and co-operative ownership of economic resources, equality of economic condition and democratic rule and management of economic and social institutions. See: SOCIAL DEMOCRACY / .
COMMUNISM
A political theory that advocates collective ownership of the means of production (resources, land and capital), abolition of private property and equalisation of incomes. Communism differs from socialism because it contemplates revolutionary social change rather than just electoral politics. The first modern communist society was established in Russia after the revolution of 1917 and this political system was imposed by the Soviet Union, after the second world war, on many countries of Eastern Europe. In Asia, a successful communist-led revolution in China in 1949 led to the growth of communist regimes and political movements in other areas, including Korea, Vietnam and Malaysia. These centralized and dictatorial communist systems were far from the model societies envisaged by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels who believed that a communist revolution would create co-operative collective ownership a true community-based democracy and a weakening of the role of the state . See: SOCIALISM / .
FASCISM
A political doctrine opposed to democracy and demanding submission to political leadership and authority. A key principle of fascism is the belief that the whole society has a shared destiny and purpose which can only be achieved by iron discipline, obedience to leadership and an all-powerful state. Fascism first developed in Italy, under the leadership of Benito Mussolini (dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943) and later influenced the development of German fascism in the Nazi movement led by Adolf Hitler (dictator of Germany from 1933-1945) . While fascism increases the power and role of the state in society and suppresses free trade unions and political opposition, it preserves private ownership and private property.
I hope some of us will find this dictionary a useful tool that we can refer to when we want to describe a complex political idealogy or thought.
