animal farm vocab
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- saboteur
- person who destroys property or interrupts production
- capitalist
- person who employs workers and owns the means of production
- bourgeoisie
- property owners and business men; the middle class as a whole
- comrade*
- fellow member of a union or political party; term of address used by Communists
- capitalism*
- economic system in which goods are produced for profit labor is performed for wages and property and capital and privately owned
- communism*
- political system based on the theories of Marx and Engles in which the goverment owns the means of production and decides what will be produced and where people will work. After the evils of capitalism drive workers to revolt the state will no longer be needed and property will be held in common.
- dissident
- someone who disagrees with official opinion
- Benevolent
- kind, good
- socialism*
- collectivism; an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled either by the state or by a community of workers. Socialists like communists see a need for social change. But they believe change can be peaceful.
- capital
- wealth used to turn workers' labor into products, such as food, raw materials, machinery, and tool
- republic
- government in which citizens elect people to represent them usually headed by a president
- animalism*
- philosophy based on Old Major's teachings developed by the animals at the Manor Farm
- extravagant
- extremely wasteful
- Bolsheviks
- followers of lenin, later known as Communists
- purge
- removal of opponents from power usually by violence
- bourgeois
- member of the middle class
- proletarian
- member of the working class
- laissez faire
- belief that government should interfere as little as possible with business and trade
- totalitarianism*
- form of government in which one political group has complete power, controls production and suppresses all opposition
- collaborator
- person who willingly helps enemies of his or her country
- ruling elite
- those who hold power in a society; the privileged class
- fascism*
- political system that exalts the nation above the individual ruled by a dictator who symbolizes national strength
- disciples
- people dedicated to following and spreading the ideas of a leader