Marxism
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- Author of The Republic
- Plato
- Author of The Communist Mannifesto
- Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels
- Author of Utopia
- Sir Thomas More
- Author of Origin of the Species
- Charles Darwin
- Author of What is to Be Done
- Lenin
- Accoring to Hegel's theory a clash of opposites to produce something new is known as
- "dialectic"
- Written in 1848 this book set forth the basic tenets of communism
- The Communist Manifesto
- T or F - Communism promises to end human exploitation by means of a world-wide worker revolution
- True
- According to Marx what theory deals with a clash of opposing economic classes of people
- Dialectical Materialism
- T or F - According to Marx the causation of all history is best explained by religious and/or spiritual factors
- False
- In terms of dialectical materialism the capitalistic owners of the factories and other means of production are referred to as
- Bourgeoisie
- According to Marx the factory workers are known as
- Proletariat
- Marx's major work which contained his theories about the evils of capitalism written in 1867 was called
- Das Kapital
- What did Marx believe was the greatest economic evil
- Private Ownership (of property etc)
- T or F - Engel's was Marx's financial backer and philosophical associate
- True
- Marx referred to his classless society as
- Utopia
- T or F - Marx's writings caused many to consider economic factors in the shaping of political events and social changes
- True
- T or F - One of the weaknesses of a Marxist economy is that the economy stagnates bc the gov't of the Communist party is hte only participant in the means of production
- True
- One of the greatest failures of Marx was that he neglected to recognize the strength of
- Nationalism
- Marx designed his theories for
- Everyone
- T or F - Marx believed that the economic system of capitalism contained the "seeds of its own destruction"
- True
- The Heglian term Thesis matches with the Marxist term
- Bourgeoisie
- The Heglian term Antithesis matches with the Marxist term
- Proletariat
- The Heglian term Synthesis matches with the Marxist term
- Utopia