Key terminology in the ideas of Marx

1. The capacity to work (e.g. skills, physical effort) which is bought and employed by capitalists and from which the capitalist extacts surplus value (6, 5)
7. The difference between the costs of labour and the wealth recieved from that labour by those who own the means of production. (7, 5)
8. A mode of production based on privately owned businesses run for the purpose of making prodit. The process is organised in terms of market in which commodities, including labour power itself, are bought and sold (10)
10. Those parts of the forces of production which can be legally owned e.g land in feudal society (5, 2, 10)

2. A classles society in which the means of production are communally owned and people are equal, free from oppression, and fulfilled as human beings (9)
3. The subject class under capitalism, made up of workers who sell their labour power in return for wages (11)
4. Those who do not own the means of production and are subject to the power of the ruling class (7, 5)
5. Other aspects of society, aside from the economic base- the political, legal and educational institutions, belief and value systems (14)
6. The breakdown of the natural interconnection among people and between people and what they produce (10)
9. The economic base of society (14)

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