Words

Question 1

What is meant by the bourgeois?

Answer 1

Initially someone belonging to, or something typical of the middle classes, but in the Marxist sense a social class defined by their ownership of the ‘means of production’ (plants, factories, machinery etc.), as opposed to the poor working classes:

Question 2

What is meant by the proletariat?

Answer 2

the class of people who do unskilled jobs in industry and own little or no property:

Proletarian” is his name for the wage labourers, those without property of their own who must hire themselves out to others; it comes, I noted, from Latin. But the Latin “proletarius” itself comes, of all things, from “proles”, which means “that which surges forth” or “is cultivated”. A proletarius, strictly speaking, was a man whose only state service lay in providing children

Question 3

Define the communists

Answer 3

Adherents to political ideologist of Marx, Lenin etc. sprang from European socialism, which are trying to improve working class conditions.

Question 4

What is the definition of presentism?

Answer 4

According to presentism, only present objects exist. More precisely, presentism is the view that, necessarily, it is always true that only present objects exist. Even more precisely, no objects exist in time without being present (abstract objects might exist outside of time).

Question 5

What does emancipation mean?

Answer 5

the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberatio