GLOSSARY
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Envisage
- to make a mental picture of to foresee the possibility
Proletariat
- the lowest class in a modern society, especially (in Marxist theory) industrial wage earners possessing neither property nor capital ad living by the sole of their labor
Alienation
- a destructive feature of industrial life
- mental change preventing the person affected from leading a normal existence and taking part in social life
Utopia
- ideal society
Malleable
- able to have its shape changed permanently through the applying of stress
Bourgeoisie
- people who own and control the mode of production
Irrefutable
- that cannot be reverted
o reputed
§ to prove (an assertion or argument) to be untrue or incorrect
Class Struggle
- classification of society according to their stand in society
Dialectic
- Marx conception that the social world progress through the rise and fall of oppositions
Status quo
- Current understanding of reality
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Positivism
- A philosophic system founded by august conte, based on the assumption that truth is completely represented by observable phenomena and scientifically verified facts
Penultimate
- Last but one; the last syllable but one
Ubermensch
- Superman; be different
Anti – Semitism
- suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews
Biopolitics
- refer to several different yet often compatible concepts
Apathy
- Lack of interest; in difference; lack of emotion
Inundated
- To flood; to overwhelm
Aphorism
- A short, neatly expressed general truth
Genealogy
- Study of family pedigrees ; the descent of a person or family from an ancestor, generation by generation
Obscurantist
- Someone who opposes the development of new ideas
