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How well do you know these "isms?"

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anarchism
a doctrine urging the abolition of government or governmental restraint as the indispensable condition for full social and political liberty
antidisestablishmentarianism
opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church
capitalism
an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations
existentialism
a philosophical attitude that stresses the individual's unique position as a self-determining agent
feminism
the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men
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marxism
a doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class
modernism
a divergence from the past in the arts and literature occurring in the course of the 20th century
nihilism
a belief that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society
postmodernism
a movement in arts and literature developed in the 1970s in reaction to modernism
romanticism
a movement in literature and art around principles of idealism and a desire for adventure, chivalry, etc.
structuralism
a school of linguistics characterized by an emphasis on the overt formal features of language
transcendentalism
a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical
empiricism
the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from sense experience

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