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Definition of Categories for Analysis

This undated form lists the categories for use in the other worksheets.

Construction (100)
Material structures, policies and programs, communications and the media, e.g. after 1934 - Works Progress Administration (WPA), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Production (300)
Productive forces employing technology (esp. transportation & communications), e.g. armaments industry
Administration ( 400)
Governmental forms e.g. monarchy, socialism, bourgeois State, democratic socialism, national socialism
(fascist)
Legal (500)
Use of state power domestically, international law globally, e.g. army, police
Political ( 600)
Parties and political activities - Whom do parties represent, what is their role in the process, e.g. cominterns
Ideological (700)
Class outlook of the form of organization - e.g. Bourgeois: Anti-Communism, patriotism, male & white chauvinism, pro-fascism. Proletarian: nationalism
Organizational (800)
Forms of organization used by the different class forces in contention, e.g. labor unions, anti-lynching organizations, Unemployed Councils, Workers Alliance, Brown Shirts.
Theory (900)
Summarized practice (basis for 400, 500, 600, 700 classifications) - success or failure to apply summarized experience (the comintern succeeding in summarizing Bolshevik lessons). US Isolationist theory, theory that Socialism impossible in one country only, theory of a peaceful path to Socialism
Economic (000)
Material stage of development of people - finance and resources, - who is served by the economy, conditions that lead to depression/prosperity

PDF icon Definition of Categories for Analysis
Tag: 
Businesses and Money Documents
Documents to Cadre from Theo
Forms
ITP (Ideological Transformation Process)
Publication Year: 
1979
Source: 
Leadership of the Organization
Audience: 
Internal to O Members