The anti-capitalist dictionary : movements, histories and motivations

This dictionary is an alternative and a counter-balance to the many political dictionaries that ignore or marginalize the history and influence of anti-capitalist movements. It paints a rich picture of the ideas and issues that inform today's anti-capitalist activity.

The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary is organised in an easily accessible alphabetical format, with self-contained, cross-referenced entries that introduce and explain concepts and issues that are integral to understanding today's global movement. The Dictionary demonstrates how the meaning and relevance of some of these have evolved and illustrates a linkage between past and present activity that might be unfamiliar to people who are involved or interested in the movement's current manifestations. This Dictionary has international coverage and will prove invaluable to students of politics as well as to activists and the general reader.

Author Notes

David Lowes has been interested and active in labour movement politics for over twenty years. Between 1984 and 2003, he was a member of and activist in Liverpool City Branch of NALGO/ Unison and held various positions. Involvement in campaigns against rate-capping, poll tax and privatisation led to research in and a doctoral thesis from John Moores University on Labour Movement Campaigns to Defend Local Democracy, Jobs and Services in the 1980s. A member of the Conference of Socialist Economists and London Socialist Historians Group, his interest and involvement has turned to the latest phase of anti-capitalist struggle.
David Lowes has been interested and active in labour movement politics for over twenty years. Between 1984 and 2003, he was a member of and activist in Liverpool City Branch of NALGO/ Unison and held various positions. Involvement in campaigns against rate-capping, poll tax and privatisation led to research in and a doctoral thesis from John Moores University on Labour Movement Campaigns to Defend Local Democracy, Jobs and Services in the 1980s. A member of the Conference of Socialist Economists and London Socialist Historians Group, his interest and involvement has turned to the latest phase of anti-capitalist struggle.

Preface	p. vii
Accountability	p. 1
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)	p. 2
Activism/Activist	p. 5
Advertising	p. 6
Alienation	p. 9
Anarchism	p. 12
Arms Trade	p. 16
Asylum	p. 18
Autonomia	p. 18
Biocentric	p. 20
Biodiversity	p. 20
Biopiracy	p. 21
Biosphere	p. 22
Biotechnology	p. 23
Black Bloc	p. 23
Bourgeoisie	p. 24
Boycott	p. 25
Brand	p. 25
Bretton Woods System	p. 26
Capital Flows	p. 27
Capitalism	p. 28
Child Labour	p. 32
Civil Disobedience	p. 33
Civil Liberties	p. 34
Civil Society	p. 34
Class	p. 35
Collectivism	p. 39
Commodity	p. 40
Communism	p. 41
Consumerism	p. 46
Copyleft	p. 48
Copyright	p. 49
Corporate Lobby Group	p. 50
Corporations	p. 52
Culture	p. 56
Deep Ecology	p. 61
Democracy	p. 61
Deregulation	p. 66
Developing Country	p. 69
Diggers	p. 72
Direct Action	p. 73
Ecology	p. 76
Ecosystem	p. 78
Empire	p. 78
Enrages	p. 82
Environmentalism	p. 83
Equality	p. 85
Exchange Rate	p. 86
Exploitation	p. 89
Export Credits	p. 91
Export-Processing Zones	p. 91
Fair Trade	p. 93
Feminism	p. 93
Floodnet	p. 93
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)	p. 94
Freedom	p. 95
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)	p. 98
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)	p. 99
Genetic Engineering	p. 100
Genuine Progress Indicator	p. 104
Global Commons	p. 104
Global Warming	p. 106
Globalization	p. 108
Green	p. 110
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)	p. 111
Gross National Product (GNP)	p. 113
Group of 8 Industrialized Nations (G8)	p. 113
Hacktivism	p. 115
Haymarket Martyrs	p. 116
Hegemony	p. 117
Hot Money	p. 117
Human Trafficking	p. 118
Ideology	p. 121
Index of Sustainable Welfare	p. 122
Indigenous People	p. 123
Intellectual Property	p. 125
International Debt	p. 127
International Monetary Fund (IMF)	p. 130
Internationalism	p. 133
Justice	p. 136
Keynesian	p. 139
Kyoto Protocol	p. 140
Labour	p. 143
Laissez-Faire	p. 146
Left	p. 146
Levellers	p. 147
Liberalization	p. 148
Liberation	p. 148
Luddite	p. 150
Maoism	p. 152
Maquiladora	p. 153
Market	p. 153
Marxism	p. 156
May Day	p. 160
Media	p. 162
Military-Industrial Complex	p. 165
Monetarism	p. 166
Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)	p. 168
Multinational Corporation (MNC)	p. 169
Neoliberalism	p. 170
Network	p. 173
New Left	p. 175
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)	p. 178
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)	p. 179
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)	p. 180
Patriarchy	p. 181
Politics	p. 181
Poverty	p. 184
Power	p. 187
Private Property	p. 190
Profit	p. 192
Propaganda	p. 194
Protest	p. 196
Quisling	p. 199
Racism	p. 200
Refugee	p. 202
Regulation	p. 204
Reification	p. 205
Religion	p. 206
Revolution	p. 208
Rights	p. 211
Sex Industry	p. 215
Situationist International	p. 217
Social Forum	p. 218
Social Movement	p. 220
Social Relations	p. 221
Socialism	p. 221
State, The	p. 228
Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs)	p. 231
Student Movements	p. 232
Sustainable Development	p. 236
Sweatshop	p. 239
Taxation	p. 240
Terrorism	p. 243
Tobin Tax	p. 246
Trade	p. 250
Trade Mark	p. 253
Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)	p. 253
Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs)	p. 254
Trade Union	p. 255
Transnational Corporations (TNCs)	p. 257
Transparency	p. 258
Trotskyism	p. 259
United Nations (UN)	p. 261
Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 265
Utopia	p. 269
Value	p. 271
Workers' Rights	p. 274
World Bank	p. 276
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)	p. 280
World Social Forum	p. 281
World Trade Organization (WTO)	p. 281
Xenophobia	p. 285
Xenotransplantation	p. 285
Ya Basta	p. 285
Zapatistas	p. 285
Timeline	p. 288
Postscript	p. 292
Bibliography	p. 293
Index	p. 306

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