| assembly line |
an arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled |
| mass production |
production of goods in considerable quantities usually by machinery |
| communism |
a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed and advocates for the elimination of private property |
| bourgeoisie |
a class or group of people with social behavior and political views held to be influenced by private-property interest |
| proletariat |
the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live |
| revisionist |
a movement in revolutionary Marxian socialism favoring an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary spirit |
| feminism |
belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests |
| suffrage |
the right of voting : FRANCHISE |
| ministerial responsibility |
a fundamental constitutional principle in the British Westminster parliamentary system according to which ministers are responsible to the parliament for the conduct of their ministry and government as a whole |
| Duma |
a representative council in Russia |
| modernism |
tendency in theology to accommodate traditional religious teaching to contemporary thought and especially to devalue supernatural elements |
| psychoanalysis |
a method of analyzing psychic phenomena and treating emotional disorders that involves treatment sessions during which the patient is encouraged to talk freely about personal experiences and especially about early childhood and dreams |
| Social Darwinism |
a sociological theory that sociocultural advance is the product of intergroup conflict and competition and the socially elite classes (such as those possessing wealth and power) possess biological superiority in the struggle for existence |
| eugenics |
the practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the populations' genetic composition |
| pogrom |
an organized massacre of helpless people, specifically such a massacre of Jews |
| Zionism |
an international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national or religious community in Palestine and later for the support of modern Israel |