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Centrism - The term used by Trotsky for tendencies in the radical movement which stand or oscilate between reformism, which is the position of the labor bureaucracy and the labor aristocracy, and Marxism, which expresses the historic interests of the working class. Since a centrist tendency has no independent social base, it must be evaluated in terms of its origins, internal dynamic, and the direction it is taing or being pushed towards by events. Chartism - The first mass revolutionary movement of the British workers in the 1830s and 1840s. The Chartists published their petition to Parliament, the People's Charter (hence their name) and fought for its demands: universal suffrage, abolition of the property qualifications for Parliamentary candidates, etc. Mass meetings and demonstrations involving millions of workers and artisans were held throughout the country for many years. Churchill, Winston - (1874 - 1965) The most class-conscious representative of the English bourgeoisie, mortal enemy of the world working class. Churchill early displayed the greatest facility and flexibility in politics. From 1900 to 1906 he belonged to the Tory party and ran on the Tory ticket for parliament; from 1906 to 1922 he functioned as a member of the Liberal Party, and then resumed the Tory label. He held many cabinet posts. In 1910-11 he distinguished himself as Minister of Internal Affairs by calling out troops against the strikers in Liverpool and elsewhere. Churchill was Curzon's predecessor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one of the chief inspirers of imperialist intervention in Russia after the October Revolution. He greatly admired Mussolini and just as thoroughly aborninated Trotsky. His role as premier in the second imperialist world slaughter is a fitting climax to his lifetime career as watchdog of British imperialism. Compradors - Native agents of foreign business concerns. Rely on and act on behalf of foreign capital. Connolly, James - ( 1868-1916) Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1868. Joined British Army, but deserted while serving in Ireland. He organized the Irish Socialist Republican Party in Dublin before emigrating to the United States. There he became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Returned to Ireland in 1910 where he became general secretary of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union during the Dublin lock-out of 1913. Opposed the First World War and led the Irish Citizens Army in the Easter Rising of 1916. Captured by British soldiers while attempting to take the Dublin post office, Connoly was executed by firing squad.Cossacks - Cavalry soldiers who formed a caste and almost a nationality in czarist Russia, since they enjoyed special privileges (exemption from taxes and land allotments) in return for obligatory military service, and since the land allotments were consigned to special teritories. Criticism - Kant gave this name to his idealist philosophy, considering the criticism of man's cognitive ability to be the purpose of that philosophy. Kant's criticism led him to the conviction that human reason cannot know the nature of things. Back to the Glossary of Marxist Terms
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