Chapter 9: Communism and Postcommunism

________- failure to understand the nature of ones exploitation; essentially amounts to "buying into "the superstructure.

________- process of historical change that is not evolutionary but revolutionary.

________: basic party organizations to which members are assigned.

________ when one person or group extracts the surplus value from another.

________- literally, restructuring; the policy of political and economic liberalization implemented in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

________: innovation and efficiency completely disappear.

________- a process of rapid marketization.

________: legislative- like body of a communist party.

________- all noneconomic institutions in a society (e.g., religion, culture, national identity); these ideas and values derive from the base and serve to legitimize the current system of exploitation.

________- politically sensitive or influential jobs in the state, society, or economy that were staffed by people chosen or approved by the Communist Party.

________ " (Political Bureau): "top policy- making executive body of a communist party.

________: free media and reduced censorship, making management and administration open to public debate.

________: the transfer of state- held property into private hands.

________: a communist economic system in which the state explicitly allocates resources by planning what should be produced and in what amounts, the final price of goods, and where they should be sold.

the economic system of a society, made up of technology (the means of production) and class relations between people (the relations of production)

the property-owning class

the value invested in any human-made good that can be used by another individual

Lenins argument that because of false consciousness, an elite communist party would have to carry out revolution; otherwise, historical conditions would not automatically lead to capitalisms demise

the working class