Class & Marxism
This term was used by Marx & Engels describes those who sell their labor for wages.
What is the Proletariat?
According to Furet, this concept seeks to transcend all nations, ethnicities, and classes (emancipation for all).
What is universalism/internationalism?
According to Nkrumah, this ideology romanticizes pre-colonial Africa.
What is African Socialism?
This revolutionary group practiced bombing campaigns to protest U.S. imperialism and racial injustice, particularly the Vietnam War.
What is the Weather Underground?
Huntington argues that the divide between the West and the Rest, is primarily a clash of these.
This class, owns the means of production.
What is the bourgeoisie?
Hitler used this communication tool to used to manipulate the masses, stir emotions, and build nationalistic sentiment.
What is propaganda?
This term is used to describe Fanon's vision for humanity that rejects colonial hierarchies and racism, while affirming the dignity, agency, and equality of all peoples.
What is New Humanism?
Bin Laden's concept of jihad is a response to this.
What is "Western" (US/European) imperialism?
(Occupation or intervention works too).
According to Hooks, this intellectual process helps people understand systemic oppression and think critically.
What is theory as a liberatory practice?
According to Marx & Engels, history progresses through stages culminating in this system of production.
What is communism?
Hitler's notion of the state embeds the monopolization of violence with this ideology.
Fanon's "Third Way" is a rejection of these two dominant ideologies.
What are western liberalism and Soviet socialism
This 19th-century revolutionary called for total personal sacrifice, emotional detachment, and dedication to destruction.
Who is Sergei Nechaev?
This ideology is driven by the interests of a capitalist class that seeks to assert the sovereignty of the nation-state while maintaining economic dominance over the working class and marginalized groups within the state.
Mao identified this class as the revolutionary vanguard.
What is the peasantry?
According to Furet, fascism and communism are driven by a perception of historical necessity that justified revolution or violent reaction against the perceived decline of this.
What is liberalism?
According to Guevara, the true faults of global conflict aren't cultural but between these groups.
The exploiters and the exploited (the colonizers and the colonized also works).
Bin Laden justifies this form of sacrifice for a cause greater than personal survival.
What are identity politics?
(What is post-colonial theory also works).
This concept describes Lenin’s response to national identity, national oppression, and the rights of nations within multiethnic states.
What is the national question?
Universalism is grounded in this major 17th century European intellectual movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
Nkrumah believed real socialism in Africa should be based on this process, not cultural nostalgia.
What is scientific reasoning?
This concept describes the notion that revolution is not merely a strategic choice but an inevitable outcome of historical forces or material conditions.
What is historical necessity?
This concept describes the belief that cultures are defined by fixed and inherent characteristics.
What is cultural essentialism? (What is primordialism also works)