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  1. capability
    the quality of being able to do something
    Question 2: What is the aim of the Communists?
    Answer: To organize society in such a way that every member of it can develop and use all his capabilities and powers in complete freedom and without thereby infringing [limiting] the basic conditions of this society. (Source 5)
  2. thereby
    by that means or because of that
    Question 2: What is the aim of the Communists?
    Answer: To organize society in such a way that every member of it can develop and use all his capabilities and powers in complete freedom and without thereby infringing [limiting] the basic conditions of this society. (Source 5)
  3. infringe
    advance beyond the usual limit
    Question 2: What is the aim of the Communists?
    Answer: To organize society in such a way that every member of it can develop and use all his capabilities and powers in complete freedom and without thereby infringing [limiting] the basic conditions of this society. (Source 5)
  4. enlighten
    make understand
    Question 6: How do you wish to prepare the way for your community of property?
    Answer: By enlightening and uniting the proletariat. (Source 5)
  5. proletariat
    a social class comprising those who do manual labor
    Question 7: What is the proletariat?
    Answer: The proletariat is that class of society which lives exclusively by its labor and not on the profit from any kind of capital. (Source 5)
  6. supplant
    take the place or move into the position of
    These machines, which were very expensive and could therefore only be purchased by rich people, supplanted the workers of the time. (Source 5)
  7. capitalist
    a person who invests assets in a business
    The class of the big capitalists, who in all advanced countries are in almost exclusive possession of the means of subsistence and those means (machines, factories, workshops, etc.) by which these means of subsistence are produced. (Source 5)
  8. subsistence
    a means of surviving
    The class of the big capitalists, who in all advanced countries are in almost exclusive possession of the means of subsistence and those means (machines, factories, workshops, etc.) by which these means of subsistence are produced. (Source 5)
  9. compel
    necessitate or exact
    The class of the completely propertyless, who are compelled to sell their labor to the first class, the bourgeois [middle class], simply to obtain from them in return their means of subsistence. (Source 5)
  10. bourgeois
    a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise
    The class of the completely propertyless, who are compelled to sell their labor to the first class, the bourgeois [middle class], simply to obtain from them in return their means of subsistence. (Source 5)
  11. obtain
    come into possession of
    The class of the completely propertyless, who are compelled to sell their labor to the first class, the bourgeois [middle class], simply to obtain from them in return their means of subsistence. (Source 5)
  12. migrant
    traveler who moves from one region or country to another
    Of the long-distance migrants, some went to distant cities for industrial work. (Source 7)
  13. sojourn
    a temporary stay
    One common form of Asian migration involved a temporary sojourn in a new country, where the migrants went to earn money that would enable them to resettle in their home village in better circumstances. (Source 7)
  14. circumstances
    a person's financial situation
    One common form of Asian migration involved a temporary sojourn in a new country, where the migrants went to earn money that would enable them to resettle in their home village in better circumstances. (Source 7)
  15. emigrant
    someone who leaves one country to settle in another
    More than half of Chinese and Indian emigrants returned to their homeland. This return rate varied by destination. (Source 7)
Created on Wed Jul 22 10:14:13 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Jul 23 12:49:18 EDT 2020)

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