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Dictionary of the Critical School 

Saturday
Jul082017

Agriculture, Co-operation of

The process of involving small scattered peasant holdings into different types of cooperation. In the transition period from capitalism to socialism it is a form of socialist transformation of agriculture. Lenin’s cooperative plan provides a theoretical basis for cooperation of agriculture.

Saturday
Jul082017

Agriculture, Socialist Transformation of

Formation of socialist production relations in the countryside. It implies creating large state enterprises and gradually unifying small farms into large-scale collective socialist farms.

Saturday
Jul082017

Agro-Industrial Complex

The totality of economic sectors engaged in producing, processing and marketing of agricultural produce, and servicing agricultural production.

Friday
Jul072017

Analysis and Synthesis

The process of practically or mentally breaking up a whole into parts and recombining the parts into a whole. Analysis is a method of studying objects which makes it possible to disjoint individual parts from the whole and examine them independently. Since a complex object is not merely a sum of parts, it is necessary to employ another method – synthesis – to recreate the object in thought. 

Friday
Jul072017

Anarchism

A petty-bourgeois social and political current which rejects state power and any political organization of society.