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A method of examining processes of change, relationships and contradictions. It should be tested through investigation, rather than applied as an automatic formula.

An analysis of international domination connected with the expansion of capital and competition between powers.

Administrative and coercive institutions, analysed by Marxists in relation to the class structure of society.

A limited change that improves or modifies arrangements within an existing social order.

A system of production based on private ownership of capital, wage labour and production for profit.

A profound change in power relations and the social order. Its form and outcome depend on historical conditions.

In the Marxist tradition, the organisation of the economy through common ownership and democratic control to meet social needs.

Councils representing workers, soldiers or peasants that emerged in the Russian revolutions. Their form and composition changed with circumstances.

People who depend primarily on selling their labour-power to live, rather than on income from owning capital.

An administrative layer; in debates on the Soviet Union, also a privileged layer that concentrated power.