Capitalism : Economic system in which means of production is privately owned and operated for profit.
Socialism: System where distribution of wealth is controlled by community. The community owns the means of production.
Communism: Seeks socialist state and wants to establish equality in distribution of wealth etc.
Marxism: Marx said that the transition from capitalistic to socialistic society will take time and there will be a transition time where there will be revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.
From wikipedia :
According to Marxism,
capitalism is a system based on the
exploitation of the proletariat by the
bourgeoisie (the "capitalists", who own and control the means of production). This exploitation takes place as follows: the workers, who own no means of production of their own, must seek jobs in order to live. They get hired by a capitalist and work for him, producing some sort of goods or services. These goods or services then become the property of the capitalist, who sells them and gets a certain amount of money in exchange. One part of the wealth produced is used to pay the workers' wages, while the other part (
surplus value) is split between the capitalist's private takings (profit), and the money used to pay rent, buy supplies and renew the forces of production. Thus the capitalist can earn money (profit) from the work of his employees without actually doing any work, or in excess of his own work. Marxists argue that new wealth is created through work; therefore, if someone gains wealth that he did not work for, then someone else works and does not receive the full wealth created by his work. In other words, that "someone else" is exploited. Thus, Marxists argue that capitalists make a profit by exploiting workers.
Leninism :
Lenin argued that the
proletariat can only achieve a successful revolutionary consciousness through the efforts of a
Communist Party comprised of full-time professional revolutionaries. Lenin further believed that such a party could only achieve its aims through a form of disciplined organization known as
democratic centralism, wherein Communist Party officials are elected
democratically, but once they are elected, all party members must abide by their decisions.
Leninism holds that
capitalism can only be overthrown by revolutionary means; that is, any attempts to
reform capitalism from within, such as
Fabianism (advocates attaining socialism via reforms rather than violence) and non-revolutionary forms of
democratic socialism, are doomed to fail.
The goal of a Leninist party is to orchestrate the overthrow of the existing government by force and seize power on behalf of the proletariat, and then implement a
dictatorship of the proletariat. The party must then use the powers of government to educate the proletariat, so as to remove the various modes of
false consciousness the
bourgeois have instilled in them in order to make them more docile and easier to exploit economically, such as
religion and
nationalism.
The dictatorship of the proletariat is theoretically to be governed by a decentralized system of proletarian
direct democracy, in which workers hold political power through local councils known as
soviets
Communist govts in India: Kerala, West Bengal...??
Communist/Left Govts in the world: Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peoples republic of China, Chile, Russia. Anything more?
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Listed below are few links that i found cud be of use to everybody here -
Ministers(Cabinet + State) -
LIST OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS <link updated to site home> ( Search On Cite | Search On Google )
Trade Unions in India -
List of trade unions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SEZsin India -
SEZ India
More on SEZs(around the World) -
Special Economic Zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nandigram SEZ Controversy -
Nandigram SEZ controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Naxalites -
Naxalite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Armed Forces(Special Powers Act) -
Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ,
Armed Forces Special Powers Act: A study in National Security tyranny (From the SAHRDC Resource Centre)
Clemenceau(Its an old topic, but one that attracted a lot of attention) -
Clemenceau (R 9[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/testing/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif[/IMG] - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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