Scientific Socialism Review Flashcards

Practice flashcards covering the key vocabulary and concepts from the Scientific Socialism lecture notes, including Marxist-Leninist theories on class, ethnicity, family, and the transition to socialism.

Right to complete equality between nations

A core principle in V.I. Lenin's national program stating that all nations have equal rights and obligations across all sectors of social life, regardless of size or development level.

Mission of the Vietnamese working class

Focuses on three main pillars in the current era: Economy, Political-Social, and Cultural-Ideological.

Socialist Rule of Law State

A state under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam where human rights are the highest value and democratic rights are implemented in all fields of social life.

Economic Content of Class Alliance

Considered the most basic and decisive content of the alliance between the working class, the peasantry, and the intelligentsia during the transition to socialism in Vietnam.

The 5 Socio-Economic Formations

The five stages of human history according to Marxism-Leninism: High Primitive Communism, Slave Ownership, Feudalism, Capitalism, and Communism.

Characteristics of a Nation (Broad Sense)

Five basic traits: common territory, shared economic mode of life, common language, shared culture/psychology, and a unified national state.

Prerequisites for Scientific Socialism

Three major natural science discoveries: Darwin's Theory of Evolution, Cell Theory, and the Law of Conservation and Transformation of Energy.

Direct Transition

The form of transition where a country moves directly from developed capitalism to socialism.

Indirect Transition

The form of transition where a country moves from a pre-capitalist stage to socialism, bypassing the capitalist stage (applicable to the case of Vietnam).

Fundamental functions of the family

Four basic functions: reproduction (unique and irreplaceable), nurturing and education (expressing responsibility toward children and society), economic organization, and satisfying socio-psychological needs.

Religion as a historical category

The concept that religion is a social-cultural phenomenon created by humans that arises, exists, and changes within specific historical periods.

Motto for grassroots democracy in Vietnam

The principle of "People know, people discuss, people do, people check, and people enjoy."

Historical mission of the working class (Political-Social)

Leading the people through the Communist Party to overthrow capitalist rule and establish worker-led political power.

Goal for 2030 (13th National Congress)

To be a developing country with modern industry and high-middle income status.

Goal for 2045 (13th National Congress)

To become a developed country with a high income status.

Basis of Marriage in a Progressive Society

Voluntary marriage based on love, monogamy (one husband, one wife), and legal equality between spouses.

Socialist Democracy

A form of democracy that is embryos of class struggle (exemplified by the Paris Commune) and is essentially of the working class, serving the majority of laborers.

Transitional Period Character

A period of profound and thorough revolutionary transformation from capitalism to socialism across all social sectors.

Unity of International Working Class

Reflected in the slogan: "Proletarians of all countries and oppressed nations, unite!" (V.I. Lenin).

The work 'The Communist Manifesto'

The classic work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that marks the official birth of Scientific Socialism.