How

Complete

is This

Dictionary?

The short answer is that while the DRM now has hundreds of entries it is not yet anything remotely approaching comprehensive. Over time we hope to make it much more inclusive. The dictionary is continually being revised and added to, though presently not at a very fast pace. (More people need to be involved in the project!) The DRM had its earliest beginnings a number of years ago as a glossary for a manuscript on MLM ethics. Then entries were gradually added for other areas of Marxist and non-Marxist philosophy. Next came many entries on Marxist political economy and for terms which were being bandied about by bourgeois economists and journalists during the Great Recession. After that, more general terms used in both Marxist and non-Marxist politics began to be added. And now we are adding entries on the revolutions in Russia and China as well as items relating to revolutionary struggles in other countries. So far the DRM is strongest with regard to definitions of theoretical terms in philosophy, political economy and revolutionary politics (though there are a great many gaps even in these areas). It is much weaker on the history and current state of particular mass struggles, on such topics as labor struggles, the national question, racial discrimination and oppression, immigrant rights, male chauvinism and the oppression of women, on other forms of discrimination and oppression, on the capitalist climate and environmental crisis, and even on the history and present status of the revolutionary movement in the United States and other countries. In short, it has a long way to go in order to become the sort of comprehensive dictionary that the revolutionary movement needs. From time to time people have suggested many additional entries which we should add to this dictionary, and we have thought of many more ourselves. The current long list of these pending suggestions is available in PDF format at: TopicsToAdd.pdf We strongly encourage other revolutionary Marxists, from anywhere in the world, to prepare and submit to us definitions for new entries in the DRM, whether from this list or not. Although we cannot promise to include all such entries, we do promise to give them very serious consideration. This dictionary will become much more useful to our world revolutionary movement if many more people come forward to take part in its expansion! We originally tried to incorporate the entries in this dictionary into the Wikipedia, but that proved impossible due to the corruption of those entries by reactionaries. For this reason we have been forced to recognize the need to maintain our own editorial control from an MLM perspective. However, this does not mean that all of our definitions are completely correct or that no improvements can be made even to our existing entries. Quite the contrary! If you disagree with any definition given here, or think it should be changed or expanded, or have any other criticisms of this dictionary, please contact us at: scotth@massline.org