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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> <!--Simnilar Below text Similar to [[Vulgar Marxism]]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vulgar_Marxism&oldid=1162183285--> is "the most orthodox [position in [[Marxism]] which] provides one-to-one correlations between [[Base and superstructure|the socio-economic base and the intellectual superstructure]]".<ref>Policy Futures in Education, Volume 3, Number 1, 2005. ''[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/pfie.2005.3.1.12 Transmodernism, Marxism and Social Change: some implications for teacher education]''
Mike Cole, [[Bishop Grosseteste College]], Lincoln, United Kingdom</ref><ref>Young, R.M. (1998) [http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap104h.html 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.
 
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--> to Robert M. Young (1998) is "The most orthodox [position in Marxism which] provides one-to-one correlations between [[base and superstructure|the socio-economic base and the intellectual superstructure]]".<ref>Policy Futures in Education, Volume 3, Number 1, 2005. ''[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/pfie.2005.3.1.12 Transmodernism, Marxism and Social Change: some implications for teacher education]''
Mike Cole, [[Bishop Grosseteste College]], Lincoln, United Kingdom</ref><ref>Young, R.M. (1998) [http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap104h.html 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 is a term referring 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.
 
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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>{{CitationCite web |last=Lenin |first=Vladimir needed|date=October1902 2022|title=What Is To Be Done? |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=www.marxists.org}}</ref> Among the representatives of Russian economicism were [[Nicolas Lokhoff|Nikolai Lochoff]], [[Yekaterina Kuskova|YekektarinaYekaterina Kuskova]], [[Aleksandr Martynov (Russian politician)|Alexander Martynov]], [[Sergei Prokopovich]], [[Konstantin Takhtarev|K. M. Takhtarev]] and others.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ЭКОНОМИСТЫ • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия |url=https://bigenc.ru/text/4927064 |access-date=2021-04-14 |website=bigenc.ru }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
===Cultural Revolution===
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