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| profit-oriented global economy based on production for sale |
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| wealth invested with the intent of producing profit |
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| idea that a discernible social system, based on wealth and power differentials, transcends individual countries |
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| dominant position in the world system; nations with advanced systems of production |
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| position in the world system intermediate between core and periphery |
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| weakest structural and economic position in the world system |
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| (In Europe, after 1750), socioeconomic trasnformation through industrialization |
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| owners of the means of production |
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| Working Class, or Proletariat |
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| people who must sell their labor to survive |
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| policy aimed at seizing and ruling foreign territory and peoples |
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| long-term foreign control of a territory and its people |
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| describing relations between European nations and areas they colonized and once ruled |
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| idealogical justification for outsiders to guide or rule native peoples |
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| principle that governments should not regulate private enterprise; free market forces should rule |
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| politcal system in which property is owned by the community; people working for the common good |
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| political movement aimed at replacing capitalism with Soviet-style communism |
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| original inhabitants of particular areas |
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