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Glossary
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Aggregate Proletariat
The proletariat as a collective historical subject whose interest is expressed not individually, but through a general form of power and property.
Anti-Market
A historical form of the Antimarket under RDP of the Second Type, in which market mechanisms are used as a subordinate instrument of the Plan and serve the law of catching-up development.
Anti-Market Economy
The historical form of Contour B under RDP of the Second Type, in which development is organized through the Anti-Market as the transmission mechanism of the Chinese model of catching-up development.
Anticapital
A historical pole that arises from the limits of capital and is directed against its world domination, dependency, and peripheral degradation.
Anticapitalism
A formation, movement, and anti-ideology expressing the historical action of anticapital.
Anticapitalist Development
A form of development of anticapital, characteristic of the East, RDP, their historical surroundings, and peripheral zones emerging from dependency, where development occurs through resource retention, catching-up development, and the growth of the whole system.
Anticapitalist Mode of Production
A historical form of production based on the power of RDP, state-proletarian property, planned organization, and the maximization of catching-up development.
Antiideology
The reverse form of ideology: a form of social thought that expresses the material opposite of the dominant order and directs the movement toward its sublation. In the author’s sense, the main historical name of antiideology is Marxism.
Antimarket
An alternative name for the Plan; the economic form of anticapital, functioning as the integral antipode of the market.
Apparent Inequality
A surface form of measuring inequality that mixes personal and bourgeois property but does not account for the collective property of the proletariat.
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Basic Classes
The main classes of the capitalist epoch — the bourgeoisie and the proletariat — through whose contradiction the class structure of the modern world is determined.
Bourgeois Rule
A form of class power in which the commanding structure of the economy belongs to the bourgeoisie and reproduces its interest.
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Capital
A historical pole based on the domination of value, accumulation, the realization of profit, and the subordination of the world to the logic of capitalist reproduction.
Capitalist Mode of Production
A historical form of production based on the rule of capital, private appropriation, wage labor, profit maximization, and the market realization of value.
Capitalist Weak Link
A weak link within the capitalist system where the power of capital is preserved, and therefore the pressure of the crisis of capitalism leads to fascization, militarization, and coercive expansion.
Center of Anticapital
A historical form in which anticapital receives state, economic, and strategic centralization.
Center of Capital
A historical zone in which the power of capital, financial domination, technological advantage, and the management of world dependency are concentrated.
Class Power
The capacity of a class to determine the direction of the economic system through ownership over its commanding structure.
Class Society
The historical form of society after primitive communism, based on division into classes, the state, property, exploitation, and the struggle of opposing social forces. Within classes society is in a state of fragmentation and internal war where every element opposes the whole. The end of class society means the transition to the Whole — communism.
Communism
A post-class, post-state, post-money, post-market, and post-plan condition of society in which humanity becomes the Whole and the economy takes the form of Universal Economy. In the classical Marxist sense, communism means the sublation of classes, the state, private appropriation, and exploitation; in the author’s sense, it also means the sublation of polar capital through the synthesis of capitalism and anticapitalism, market and plan, RDP and capital in a higher social form.
Communist Indicator
A measure of the historical balance of forces between anticapital and capital.
Communist Threshold
The value of the Communist Indicator equal to 1, at which anticapital reaches parity with capital.
Contour A
The commanding contour of power-property through which the strategic direction of the economy is determined.
Contour B
The executive and variable contour of the economy through which the system solves the tasks of production, administration, and micro-management.
Corruption of Consciousness
The subordination of social thought to the logic of capital, in which the individual interests of people begin to reproduce the movement of capital as a natural order.
Crisis of Capitalism
A historical condition of the world capitalist system in which the growth of the rate of exploitation reaches its limit, and the further development of capital requires reset, destruction, war, or the transfer of contradictions into a weak link.
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Economic Democracy
A form of RDP in which the aggregate proletariat acts as the collective owner, while the nomenklatura is the representative class of this property.
External Trait
An observable feature of a phenomenon that by itself does not reveal its class, economic, or historical essence.
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Friction of Reality
The material complexity of the world that different forms of economic organization try to process through market, plan, administration, calculation, and coordination.
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Gross Economy
The historical form of Contour B under RDP of the First Type, in which development is organized through gross indicators, industrial mobilization, and the centralized fulfillment of planned tasks.
Gross Vulgar Planism
A form of vulgar planism that reduces the plan to the management of macro-aggregates and treats micro-accounting as an obstacle to centralized management.
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Hegemony
A mechanism of consciousness control under capital, based on the creation of voluntary consent through a multiplicity of ideologies, the illusion of free choice, and the naturalness of the dominant order.
Historical Norm of Efficiency
The maximum level of efficiency that a concrete historical form of anticapitalism, socialism, or RDP can achieve at a given level of development of productive forces, technology, and administration.
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Ideology
A form of social thought selected by a material phenomenon as the most suitable superstructure for its own reproduction.
Imperialist Center
A geographically and historically formed zone of concentration of capital, technology, financial power, and world management.
Imperialist Development
A form of development of capital, characteristic of the West, imperialism, and the capitalist center, where the growth of the center occurs through uncontrolled concentration, resource extraction, and the degradation of the periphery.
Indoctrination
Antihegemony; a mechanism of consciousness control under RDP, based on the administrative consolidation of a single scientific doctrine and the maintenance of the antiideological integrity of the system.
Internal Law
The necessary logic of reproduction of a phenomenon, determining its structure, movement, and historical limits.
Iron Pyramid of Capital
An imperialist structure in which capital concentrates power, wealth, and development in the center while simultaneously fixing the dependency of the periphery.
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Law of Anticapital
The basic law of anticapital, according to which anticapital strives toward the maximization of catching-up development, the reduction of the gap with capital, and the overcoming of historical backwardness.
Law of Capital
The basic law of capital, according to which capital strives toward the maximization of profit and subordinates production, administration, the state, and world development to this movement.
Law of Catching-Up Development
An alternative name for the law of anticapital; it expresses the internal logic of anticapital as the maximization of catching-up development in relation to the capitalist center.
Law of Debt
The temporal coordinate of the law of realization, through which capital transfers future demand and future profit into the present.
Law of Outlet
The spatial coordinate of the law of realization, through which capital carries the realization of value into external markets, dependent zones, and the periphery.
Law of Polarization of World Development
The law according to which capitalism produces its own opposite and divides the world into capitalist and anticapitalist poles.
Law of Profit Maximization
An alternative name for the law of capital; it expresses the internal logic of capital as the constant drive to increase profit.
Law of Realization
The general law of capital according to which produced surplus value must be transformed into monetary profit through effective demand.
Liberal Nihilism
A form of vulgar planism that completely denies the possibility of scientific planning and declares economic information to be in principle inaccessible to centralized management.
Limit of the Rate of Exploitation
The historical boundary at which capital can no longer continue its previous development through the ordinary increase of labor exploitation.
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Managerial Class
The representative class of capital, managing economic processes for the maximization of profit.
Market
The economic form of capitalism in which production, distribution, and development are coordinated through the commodity, value, price, competition, and the law of profit.
Market Vulgar Planism
A form of vulgar planism that recognizes the necessity of micro-accounting but treats the market as the only possible mechanism for carrying it out.
Marxism
The most developed historical form of antiideology, expressing the material opposite of capital through the theory of class struggle, proletarian power, and the overcoming of capitalist society.
Materiality
The objective economic-historical basis that determines ideology, the form of the state, and the direction of social development.
Mefo-Law
A crisis-historical form of the law of realization, in which the pressure of the crisis of capitalism is concentrated in a weak link of the capitalist type, while the ordinary coordinates of realization — debt and sale — take on a coercive-expansionist form.
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NAK(N) — New Anticapitalism (The New Ones)
A local cell of the New Anticapitalism, based on Polar Marxism and created for study, discussion, dissemination, analysis, and the formation of the New Ones.
NAK(N) Cell
NAK(N) Cell is the official recognized form of a NAK(N) initiative. It is a local point of the New Anticapitalism connected to the central platform of Polar Marxism.
NAK(N) Initiative
NAK(N) Initiative is the provisional form of a local or online group before official recognition. It can begin as a reading circle, university group, city group, workplace cell, online community, or another concrete form.
Network Economy
The future form of Contour B under RDP of the Third Type / the New World, in which development is organized through network and nodes as the transmission mechanism of the post-digital epoch and catching-up development. In the historical logic of RDP, it appears as the next form after the Gross Economy of RDP of the First Type and the Anti-Market Economy of RDP of the Second Type, and also as their synthesis at a higher stage of development.
New Anticapitalism
New Anticapitalism is the modern twenty-first-century movement of Marxists and communists based on Polar Marxism. Marxists and communists who adhere to this movement are called the New Ones: new Marxists, new communists, or simply the New Ones. They understand the modern world through the contradiction between capital and anticapital and orient themselves toward the New World.
New World
An informal name for the future form of RDP of the Third Type, in which anticapital reaches a new historical centralization through network economy.
Nomenklatura
The unified political-managerial representative class of RDP, combining state administration and economic management in the center of anticapital.
Nomintern
The practical organizational platform of Polar Marxism, transforming theory into mass action through an open form of participation and a protected network structure.
Non-Basic Classes
Social groups and layers that participate in the management or reproduction of the system but do not determine its basic class character.
Non-Western System
A socio-economic form that cannot be scientifically understood through ready-made Western categories of market, authoritarianism, or state capitalism.
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Peripheral Weak Link
A weak link of a dependent or peripheral zone of the world system where the pressure of the crisis of capitalism produces an anticapitalist rupture, revolutionary centralization of power, and the possibility of forming RDP.
Personal Inequality
Inequality between people as individuals in income, consumption, housing, savings, and personal property.
Plan
The economic form of anticapitalism, socialism, or RDP in which production, distribution, and development are coordinated through conscious goal-setting, accounting, resource allocation, and the law of catching-up development.
Point Y
The material ceiling of polar capital: the historical limit where the previous forms of market and plan can no longer process the increasing complexity of reality and require a transition to a new form of social whole.
Polar Capital
The world-form of capital in which capital reproduces itself through its own opposite — anticapital.
Polar Contradiction
The basic contradiction of the modern epoch between capital, which seeks to preserve world domination, and anticapital, which overcomes its limits.
Polar Marxism
A theory that derives the modern world from the contradiction between capital and anticapital as two historical poles of world development.
Polar-Capitalist Mode of Production
The highest world-form of the capitalist mode of production, in which the capitalist and anticapitalist modes of production exist as opposite sides of one polar world relation.
Polarization of Development
A law of capitalist development in which the development of one world pole is produced through the backwardness, dependency, and degradation of another.
Political Class
The representative class of capital, managing the state, law, and coercion for the preservation of the conditions of capitalist reproduction.
Poverty of Terminology
A condition of political economy in which phenomena are named through external labels instead of the scientific derivation of their internal essence.
Primitive Communism
The initial pre-class form of social community, in which classes, the state, private appropriation, and developed division of labor are still absent, while collectivity exists in a poor, simple, and undeveloped form.
Proletarian Rule
A form of class power in which the commanding structure of the economy is removed from bourgeois ownership and belongs to the proletariat in collective form.
Pure Capitalism
A historical form of capitalism before completed world polarization, in which capital has not yet produced a stable anticapitalist pole.
Pure Real Inequality
A measure of the displacement of the bourgeoisie from productive and commanding property.
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RDP
Revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat; the historical form of fully seized proletarian power, acting as the center of anticapital. In the author’s sense, RDP corresponds to what is usually called socialism; the main historical forms of RDP are the USSR and China.
RDP of the First Type
The Soviet historical form of RDP, based on the Gross Economy as the form of Contour B of the industrial epoch and catching-up development.
RDP of the Second Type
The Chinese historical form of RDP, based on the Anti-Market as the transmission mechanism of Contour B of the digital epoch and catching-up development.
RDP of the Third Type
A future form of the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat in which the center of anticapital reaches a network organization of production, administration, and social coordination. Politically and historically, RDP of the Third Type may be called the New World, while economically it is expressed as network economy.
Real Inequality
The unity of personal inequality and Pure Real Inequality, showing personal living conditions inside a definite structure of class power.
Representative Class
A social layer that is not a basic class but manages the system on behalf of the ruling class.
Revolution of the First Type
A revolution whose result is the formation of RDP as the center of anticapital.
Revolution of the Second Type
A historical transition that arises upon reaching the communist threshold and means the sublation of the polar contradiction between capital and anticapital.
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Scientific Planism
An understanding of the plan as a developing scientific-technical mechanism capable of connecting the macro-strategy of the Center with micro-accounting through the growth of computational power, digital connectivity, and direct processing of economic signals.
SCSism
The Chinese form of Marxism, connected with socialism with Chinese characteristics and the Chinese type of RDP.
SDIMC
State-Debt Imperialist Monopoly Capitalism; an alternative name for imperialism / the iron pyramid of capital in the logic of the law of realization. It designates a developed form of imperialist capitalism in which the state, debt, imperialist external outlet, and monopoly combine into a single structure for profit reproduction.
Second Breath of Imperialism
A temporary restoration of the power of capital through crisis, war, the reset of contradictions, and the redistribution of the conditions of exploitation.
Shareholder Imperialism
A form of developed capitalism in which ownership, management, and political representation are separated, but jointly subordinated to the maximization of capital.
Sovietism
The Soviet form of Marxism, historically adapted to the Soviet type of RDP.
State-Proletarian Property
State ownership of Contour A, its substantial part, or its decisive elements, functioning as the collective form of proletarian property.
Systematic Waste of Resources
An internal property of imperialism in which competition and concentration regularly produce excessive losses, duplication, and destruction of resources.
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The New Ones
The New Ones are people formed through Polar Marxism and the New Anticapitalism. They study the polar world, understand the contradiction between capital and anticapital, and orient themselves toward the New World. Alternative names: New Marxists, New Communists.
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Uncontrolled Competition
A mechanism of capitalist selection in which the struggle for efficiency creates parallel costs, the destruction of the surplus, and waste.
Uncontrolled Concentration
A mechanism of capitalist victory in which the strongest centers absorb resources on an abnormal scale and intensify systemic waste.
Universal Economy
The form of economy after the sublation of polar capital, where production and distribution become the natural metabolism of humanity as a single whole. Universal Economy is the synthesis of capitalism and anticapitalism, that is, capitalism and socialism / RDP, in a higher communist form.
Utopian Planism
A form of vulgar planism that attempts to replace calculation, algorithm, and managed coordination with direct discussion, voting, or subjective collective decision-making.
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Vulgar Planism
An erroneous type of economic thought that treats the gap between the plan and micro-accounting as an inevitable property of planning, rather than as a historically surmountable technological limitation.
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Weak Link
A country or zone where the pressure of the crisis of capitalism is concentrated and where the contradictions of the world system take their sharpest historical form.
Western Label
A term that describes a non-Western system as a defective variety of capitalism without proving its internal logic.
Whole
A synthetic form of society in which the opposition between capital and anticapital is sublated in a unified post-class system. The Whole is the synthesis of market and plan in their highest form of development. If the market is the economic form of capitalism, and the plan is the economic form of anticapitalism, socialism, or RDP, then the Whole is the economic form of communism as a higher form of social coordination.