Definition of "civilisation" []

• Alternative spelling of civilization. (noun)

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• "It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves."
• "Much of what we call civilisation is structure that has developed over time to limit monopolies."
• "It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e. to become bourgeois themselves."