Amestapo is a word from Heoist philosophy which refers to American police (literally American-state-police) and intentionally invokes the gestapo seen under nazism.
Anarchism is a stateless model necessary for the realization of Communism. In Anarchism, there is no state which controls the people below it, in favour of the people equitably caring for each other and keeping each other safe through the medium of free association. This model inherently requires the abolition of police enforcement systems.
Anarchism is the abolition of the state classism first major split in Socialist philosophy, generally tied to the concepts presented by the philosophers Bakunin and Kropotkin, presenting the idea that the existence of the state inherently reinforces class society. Its antithesis, though not anathema, is Marxism-Leninism, the abolition of non-state classism first model, presenting the idea that a Socialist workers' state is necessary to push back against capitalist states.
The bourgeoisie, bourgeois, bougie, or bourge, are the upper class of capitalist society. These people do not need to work in order to survive, and are the inherent enemy of the proletariat. These include individuals such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, etc., who will freely exploit proletarians, especially of the Global South, for the production of excess capital, which they will refuse to equitably redistribute to the proletariat according to the Socialist economic model.
A bourgeois democracy is an oligarchic democracy created under capitalism, which inherently reinforces the ability of capitalists to have more power than the people. This results in elected officials not being elected from true democracy, but instead from a select oligarchy approved by the bourgeoisie.
The prime example of a bourgeois democracy is the United States of America, wherein its politicians are elected primarily through the aid of Political Action Committees (PACs) and Super-PACs, which quite literally purchase bureaucrats by providing significantly more public coverage of candidates that uphold the capitalist system.
The bourgeois proletariat are proletarians who may make a large chunk or the majority of their capital through methods such as investments, but still require labour to survive. Were their investments to crash, they would be reduced to poverty.
These people often function as blatant class traitors and will just as often identify themselves with the bourgeois class, as cuts to the bourgeoisie will directly cut their production of capital, but furthermore must be treated as fellow proletarians. These people will either exploit fellow proletarians to escalate to the bourgeois class, or will be crushed under the boot of capitalism to becoming part of the major proletariat.
Do not divide yourselves from them or view them as a lost cause: they may be incredibly difficult to convert to Socialists, but once they understand the power of Socialism and will fight for it, their higher capitalist sub-class will grant much lubrication for the Socialist catalyst in our unfortunate status quo.
Bureaucrats are political officials which are appointed, rather than being elected.
Capitalism is the society that developed to replace oligarchies, seeking to create class mobility (rather than birth-locked class systems, such as those seen in chattel slavery) by allowing people to accumulate capital—a medium through which labour is exchanged rather than direct equitable labour exchange—to escalate their class status.
This is enacted through the extraction of surplus labour and the shrinkage of necessary labour, which in turn creates more surplus capital. This is a direct theft of the workers' capital by paying them less than their labour is actually worth, instead funneling it into a small oligarchy of people who own the means of production—as well as average human labour power (effectively literally buying humans, whether via chattel slave labour or wage slave labour)—which includes raw and refined resources, commodities, and industrial infrastructure and land—these people being referred to as capitalists.
The capitalist system is so fundamentally flawed that it consistently leads to the exploitation of the proletarian class by the bourgeois class, leading to the vast majority of capitalist nations placing restrictions on capitalism, though these inevitably fail to prevent the inherent problems of capitalism: that it recreates the system of oligarchy by making it impossible for the proletarian class to escalate to the status of bourgeoisie with enough time.
Consequently, as acknowledged by Karl Marx in The Communist Manifesto, the noble intent of capitalism has outlived its purpose, and the logical next socioeconomic step for humanity is Communism. To this effect, the word capitalism does not receive the same respect of capitalization as Communism.
See bourgeoisie.
A commune is an organization of Socialists who provide for each other equitably according to a Socialist model. These people will often need to pool the capital earned from the capitalist model together and equitably distribute this capital to meet each worker's needs. Unfortunately, in many capitalist countries, the creation of a commune inherently requires its members to have accumulated enough monetary capital to acquire land capital for which to establish the commune upon.
Communism is a socioeconomic and political philosophy that argues for the ultimate dissolution of class systems, particularly the economic class system created by capitalism, with the ultimate goal of abolishing the state.
The original intent of the word was the practice of common, universal ownership or the act of being a community. Therefore, Communism can most accurately be described as a Concordial society.
Communism is interpreted broadly throughout Socialist spaces, with the two competing interpretations of the dictatorship of the proletariat: the Marxist-Leninist model of state Socialism wherein the state forcibly prevents the re-emergence of capitalism, and the Anarchist (Bakunin-Kropotkin) model of the non-existence of the state preventing statist classism, often referred to as anti-authoritarianism (no gods, no masters).
Therefore, in Heoist philosophy, Communism will typically be used interchangeably with Socialism, but generally refers to a mixed model of somewhat Marxist-Leninist state Socialism which serves to nurture, trade with, and protect Anarchist societies from developing fifth columns which may cause their collapse, serving as an all-encompassing term for a multicultural Socialist republic of mutually cooperating ideologies as the actually-functional Socialist alternative to the primarily-symbolic modern United Nations.
Concordial is a somewhat redundant word which means of and from the heart. This is a word from Heoist philosophy to more accurately describe the anti-capitalist nature of Communism, in which equitable care for other people (as established by Marx, from each according to [their] abilities, to each according to [their] needs) is favoured over the mediums of capital.
Council Communism is a model of decentralized democracy which breaks up state centralism in favour of decentralizing into Soviets, which are councils of workers held directly accountable by their electors.
However, historically, this model has made the mistake of entirely opposing trade unions and greater societal cohesion, considering them as new forms of bourgeois democracy and capitalism, and consequently, if implemented, needs to work in tandem with a Socialist state lest it fall to the same mistakes the original experiment created: a rapid decline in cohesion that divided the Communist Workers' Party of Germany.
Democratic Centralism is a principle of democratic organization found within Marxist-Leninist societies. It can best be explained as follows:
Every functional society needs some degree of both democracy and centralism. Having great democracy and no centralism means that little to no common ground can be found, which can lead to fracturing in a society or exposure to external revolution. Having great centralism and no democracy is simply an autocracy.
Democratic Centralism seeks to reconcile these by allowing for the public forum of ideas to be used in a manner that drives people towards a common cause, viewing them in a dialectical relationship that can assist each other, rather than antithetical to each other.
I recommend this video by Luna Nguyen about Democratic Centralism, the first of three, for a basic coverage.
Democratic Socialism is a redundant term (as Socialism already inherently requires at least some degree of democracy). However, the ideology it carries will be considered wildly differently by different Socialists, ranging from people who believe it's a low degree of Socialism, to those who may describe it as social imperialist, or just as capitalism with a human face.
Democratic Socialists have wildly varying ideologies about the world, though generally—especially in the West—it focuses on small concessions to make capitalism more stable that are considered completely normal for much of the rest of the capitalist world, such as trade unionism, universal healthcare, a universal basic income, etc., without actually abolishing private property or abolishing or restricting market mechanisms (the latter can be seen in market Socialism, examples of which can be seen in the USSR's New Economic Plan or Vietnam's current (c. 2025) economy).
Democratic Socialists are essentially just the modern reincarnation of Social Democrats.
In the words of Iraqi Marxist-Leninist Comrade Hakim, "The Democratic Socialists [...], well... I don't really know what they want. Some of them are baby [Marxist-Leninists] who are still too scared of the stigma around the Soviet Union, some of them are baby Anarchists that haven't found Kropotkin yet, or sad European-style Social Democrats not interested in getting rid of capitalism at all. All of them have definitely not done enough reading."
The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, as described by Marx, refers to the state of society wherein the bourgeois class own the means of production, i.e. the money, labour, land, materials, and most succinctly, power, and exploit workers through garnering, "profit," from their labour, which involves stealing capital owed to the workers, which is redistributed upwards to the ruling class, rather than redistributed equitably among all of the workers and non-working people such as the cripplingly disabled, the young, the elderly, etc..
The dictatorship of the proletariat is the Socialist policy anathema to the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, wherein the money, labour, land, materials, and most succinctly, power, are equitably redistributed among all of the workers and non-working people such as the cripplingly disabled, the young, the elderly, etc..
The dictatorship of the proletariat can be easily narrowed down with the expression, "a worker is entitled to the sweat of their brow," though this neglects to include the information that some of the labour and materials have to be redistributed to people who aren't working, not as an upper class levying labour from those below, but rather as equals who can provide to society as they wish, or not at all if not physically or mentally capable, including mental health.
Fascism is the unfortunate alternate natural progression of capitalism antithetical to Socialist liberation. Fascism seeks to recreate the Imperial Roman model of government wherein an upper class unites under the banner of fasces (literally, a bundle of sticks bound together for increased strength) to control the lower class with unrestricted dominant power.
Without Socialist liberation, fascism will repeatedly resurface despite the efforts of liberal governments to avoid it.
Free Association is the Anarchist model of social cooperation, which sees people freely working together on tasks without anyone to explicitly direct them, instead focusing on autonomous public cohesion, though generally still include descriptions of guidance by those with skills and experience.
Marxist-Leninists still consider this to be a form of authority and make little to no distinction between this and state authority, whereas Anarchists commonly describe this as justified authority, as opposed to unjustified authority, one of many cases in which Marxist-Leninists and Anarchists may describe the same concepts with different terminology.
See Marxism-Leninism.
A liberal, in Socialist philosophy, is a generally progressive person who has not been enlightened to Socialist philosophy. While these people can sometimes be easily converted, many have been convinced by the bourgeoisie a false equivalence between Socialism and fascism—despite their inherent incompatibility—and will consequently be violently opposed to Socialist liberation.
Liberals, especially neoliberals, will often be more willing to cooperate with fascists than Socialists. Historically, liberalism inevitably leads to the formation of fascism, and the crumble of fascism leads to the restructuring of liberalism: a horrendous sociopolitical ouroboros of negligence.
The major proletariat is a term coined for Heoist philosophy to make a greater distinction between the petit bourgeois, bourgeois proletariat, and the rest of the proletariat. The major proletariat concern the vast majority of the working class that do not have the luxury of self-employment or capital investment.
Maoism, sometimes referred to as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, is a Socialist political philosophy that expanded upon Vladimir Lenin's philosophy of uniting Socialists to also seeking to unite non-Socialist progressives and guide them towards Socialist enlightenment.
This is interpreted loosely in Heoism as a philosophy that can used to align Marxist-Leninists and Anarchists together to overthrow capitalism, and then form a cooperative federation together rather than focusing on the imperialist lens of ideological supremacy.
It must be noted that its original intent was to help pre-industrial and/or semi-feudal societies develop Socialism, and is dangerous to attempt in societies as technologically developed and with as little class consciousness as, for example, the United States, and may result in the utter failure of a Socialist revolution.
Marxism is a word that can cover a myriad of meanings, but can ultimately be broken down to someone who follows the philosophy of Karl Marx. In Heoist philosophy, this will be used interchangeably with the word Communist.
Marxism-Leninism, sometimes referred to as Leninism, is a Socialist philosophy which criticizes Social Democrats for uniting with liberals over Socialists and eschewing Socialist philosophy to become class traitors (see: What is to Be Done?), and suggests that Socialists unite into a single union, cooperating to realize Socialism together.
Leninism often concerns revolutionary Socialism according to Marx's philosophy (wherein he considered revolution a requirement, believing that gradual reform would be opposed too effectively to convert capitalism to Socialism without violence), and seeks to create a Socialist state interpretation of Karl Marx's concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat rather than Communism Anarchism.
See Maoism.
Nazism is a form of German nationalist fascism largely focused on antisemitism, but also concerns anti-Queer, anti-Transgender, anti-Black, anti-Brown, anti-Socialist, anti-Communist, anti-Disabled, white supremacist, modified Christian nationalist, and modified Norse religion nationalist philosophy.
While many modern fascists unite under nazism and neo-nazism, the vast majority of fascists would more accurately be described as just fascists. While nazism is often considered synonymous with fascism, it must not be discounted that nazism considers German nationalism, whereas many modern iterations of fascism (for example, Trumpism's American nationalism) will experience nationalism towards a different country, or even just white nationalism.
Necessary Labour is the amount of labour that a worker needs to work in order to support themselves, and in turn support their families.
The petit bourgeois, or petty bourgeoisie, are working class individuals whom are self-employed, such as landlords, managers, private business owners, and independent artists. These people may identify themselves with the bourgeois class, and may be identified as the bourgeois class by the major proletariat, but these people are ultimately exploited proletarians granted a slightly higher sub-class.
As the divide between proletariat and bourgeoisie grow, these people will either exploit other proletarians enough to become bourgeois, or far more likely, be crushed under the boot of capitalism so deep that they become sub-employed. Consequently, the petit bourgeois must always be treated as fellow proletarians; while many may become class traitors, these people will benefit just as greatly as the major proletariat.
A proletarian, or member of the proletariat, is a working class individual, whereas proletariat refers to the whole of the working class. Proletarians are people who have to work in order to survive, whose human rights are altered to privileges that can be taken away by the bourgeois class at will to force them to commit more labour to produce more capital for the bourgeoisie. This capital is, for the most part, stolen from the proletariat, wherein the proletariat must fight over the scraps while the bourgeois swim in excess capital.
Proletarians will often be taught by the bourgeoisie to target each other, including under divisions of the majority proletariat, the petit bourgeois, and the bourgeois proletariat, rather than targeting the bourgeoisie to liberate the proletariat and place the formed proletariat and bourgeoisie on equitable ground from which they can both benefit, wherein the proletariat's human rights are finally realized as real rights, and the bourgeoisie exercises degrowth.
, even in the days of Marx, has often been used interchangeably with the word Communist, but may also be used to refer to the transition stage between capitalism and Communism. Socialism concerns a Concordial model of society which seeks to abolish class systems, though those who define themselves under the banner of Socialism conflict on the Communist ideal of the abolition of the state.
Surplus Labour is the extra labour that workers generate when they work longer than they actually need to to support themselves or their families. In capitalist society, this is achieved by a combination of increasing or decreasing the length of the working day, increasing or decreasing the number of workers, increasing or decreasing the maximum and mimimum ages of workers, increasing or usually decreasing the workers' working conditions and general quality of life, direct reduction or effective proportional reduction (via stagnation of or increase of in lower proportion to increase in cost of living) of wages, segregation or sardine-cramming of workers, increasing the productivity of labour, and increasing the intensity of labour, to different degrees in each according to the development of society and amount of proletarian push-back against the bourgeoisie.
In a Communist society, surplus labour will entirely change form, in that workers will largely only produce necessary labour, and wherein surplus labour is voluntarily created by democratic approval, its fruits are provided to the commons rather than to an oligarchy. This serves to ensure that all people, regardless of ability to work, can be supported by common assistance, rather than seeking infinite growth for the sake of infinite growth, despite a finite amount of labour and resources.
Unitas Mundi is the term coined by Comrade Yugopnik's titular manifesto of global human unity, which he correctly philosophizes will occur under the banner of Socialism. The Unitas Mundi Socialist model requires a one-world human government to form and replace the current primitive national structure.
The Unitas Mundi Socialist model is the most likely long-term human model, which can be interpreted as the most realistic realization of mass human Communism; whether this fits the Anarchist model by effectively making the human state effectively powerless in most matters, through the process of human matters being determined at the smallest possible levels of government wherein members are democratically elected into successive Socialist republics, is unfortunately a debate that will cause schisms among different flavours of Socialists.
The Unitas Mundi model, however, aligns with the Socialist Republic of Sol model of Heoism, and given its requirement of Indigenous autonomy, is not necessarily incompatible with Anarchist communes governing lower levels of humanity which autonomously cooperate with other Socialist republics for the greater human scale.
See Proletarian.