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A theory or practice based on the desire to promote equality, sometimes seen as the belief that equality is the primary political value

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The abolition of private property and establishment of a system of common/public ownership, usually through the mechanisms of the state

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A system of taxation in which the rich pay a higher proportion of their income in tax than the poor

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Card 9

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A form of socialism that seeks to abolish capitalism and replace it with a qualitively different kind of society

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A form of socialism in which the state controls and directs economic life, acting in theory in the best interests of the people

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Card 11

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A form of socialism that's revised its critique of capitalism and seeks to reconcile greater social justice with suriving capitalist forms

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Progress brought about by gradual improvements, rather than dramatic upheaval

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Card 13

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A form of deradicalized communism most influential in the 1970s which attempted to blend Marxism with liberal-democratic principles

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Card 14

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The deterministic form of Marxism that dominated intellectual life in orthodox communist states

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Card 15

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A Marxist theory that holds that material/economic conditions ultimately structure aspects of social existence

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