A system of views on the laws governing the development of nature, society and thinking, a theory of knowledge and the transformation of the world; the ideological foundation of the communist parties' activities.
A form of government, under which the state is headed by a single person -- the tsar, king or emperor - and the power vested in the head of state is as a rule hereditary.
A powerful association of capitalists in the form of concerns, corporations, etc. Domination of the capitalist market by monopolies and their decisive impact on government organs are the chief features of bourgeois states.
Philosophical categories describing theoretical knowledge of an object. By abstract knowledge is meant knowledge that is incomplete and one-sided and reflects individual aspects and features of specific objects in abstraction from their other aspects and properties. But cognition is true only when it is concrete, when it perceives objects and phenomena of reality in the integral unity of their aspects. This movement of thinking is called ascent from the abstract to the concrete.
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