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'''Economism''', sometimes spelled '''economicism''',<ref>{{Cite web|last=Garber|first=Megan|date=2014-06-30|title=Why 'Efficiency' Is Inhumane|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/economicism-n-the-language-of-economics-infiltrating-the-language-of-everything-else/373722/|access-date=2020-12-20|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US}}</ref>
Mike Cole, [[Bishop Grosseteste College]], Lincoln, United Kingdom</ref><ref>Young, R.M. (1998) [https://web.archive.org/web/20180507121440/http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap104h.html ''Marxism and the History of Science''] The Human Nature Review. "The defining feature of Marxist approaches to the [[history of science]] is that the history of scientific ideas, of research priorities, of concepts of nature and of the parameters of discoveries are all rooted in historical forces which are, in the last instance, socio-economic. ... There are variations in how literally this is taken ... There is a continuum of positions."</ref> ''Economism'' refers to the distraction of working-class political activism from a global political project to purely economic demands. The concept encompasses rewarding workers in socialism with money incentives, rather than incentivizing workers through revolutionary politics. The term is originally associated with [[Vladimir Lenin]]'s critique of trade unionism.
== In Marxist analysis ==
===Lenin===
The term economism was used by Lenin in his critique of the trade union movement, in reference to how working class demands for a more global political project can become supplanted by purely economic demands.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Wu |first=Yiching |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881183403 |title=The cultural revolution at the margins : Chinese socialism in crisis |date=2014 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=978-0-674-41985-8 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |pages=98 |oclc=881183403}}</ref> Economistic demands include higher wages, shorter working hours, secure employment, health care, and other benefits.<ref name=":0" />
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In his criticism of economism, Lenin's view was that the political figure of the worker could not necessarily be inferred from the worker's social position.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Russo |first=Alessandro |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1156439609 |title=Cultural Revolution and revolutionary culture |date=2020 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |isbn=978-1-4780-1218-4 |location=Durham |pages=180 |oclc=1156439609}}</ref> Under capitalism, the worker's labor power is [[Commodification|commodified]] and sold in exchange for wages.<ref name=":1" /> While negotiating the sale of labor power is necessary for survival under capitalism, Lenin argued that participating in that negotiation did not guarantee a worker's political existence and in fact obscured the underlying political stakes.<ref name=":1" />
Lenin used the term in his attacks on a trend in the early [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] around the newspaper [[Rabochaya Mysl]].<ref>{{
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