PSCI 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bourgeoisie, Glasnost

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 1100
• Professor: Tamara Kotar

Document Summary

This was a process known as dialectical materialism: in marx"s theory, the communist utopia would be a world without states, and he envisioned a world of total equality without the conflicts of nationalism, bourgeoisie: property owning middle class, proletariat: working class, vanguard of the proletariat: small revolutionary movement that could seize power on behalf of the people, who may lack consciousness necessary to rise up. However, lenin in russia and mao in china led communist revolutions in states with low levels of economic development: the party structure resembled a state general secretary as the executive, a politburo as the cabinet, the central committee as the legislature, and even local cells of supporters but these institutions usually merely approved whatever party leadership desired, communist ideology shaped state policy making and legitimized authoritarian control, party state: a political system in which the roles of head of state and hear of government are assigned to separate executive offices.