(noun) the Marxist theory that maintains the material basis of a reality constantly changing in a dialectical process and the priority of matter over mind
(noun) the principle or aim of promoting unity among the world's Christian churches.
The State Planning Committee (Gosplan) was the agency responsible for central economic planning (particularly five-year plans) in the Soviet Union
(noun) preponderant influence or authority over others; domination / (noun) the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group
(noun) the Marxist theory of history and society that holds that ideas and social institutions develop only as the superstructure of a material economic base
(noun) marsh swamp / (noun) a situation that traps, confuses, or impedes / (noun) an overwhelming or confusing mass or mixture
the postulate that markets are organised most effectively by private enterprise and that the private pursuit of accumulation will generate the most common good; accomplished by opening international markets and financial networks, and downsizing the welfare state
a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost ("openness") policy reform
(noun) politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives
according to Max Weber: the human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence within a given territory