Marx

Question 1

Marx quote on history

Answer 1

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (CM)

Question 2

Marx quote on the inevitability of societal collapse

Answer 2

Because feudalist RoPs were no longer fit for MoP:
“They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder” (CM)

Capitalism faces boom and bust pattern “each time more threateningly” (CM)

“what the bourgoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers”

Elster: communist revolution will occur “when and because” communist relations of production become optimal for the development of productive forces

Question 3

Year of Communist Manifesto publication

Answer 3

1848

Question 4

Marx’s critique of the capitalist state

Answer 4

The government “but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie”

Question 5

Importance of the proletariat revolution

Answer 5

The proletariat because of their deprivation have a “universal” charachter

“In order, therefore, to assert themselves as individuals, they must now overthrow the state” (German Ideology)

Question 6

Need for a proletariat revolution

Answer 6

The working class cannot immediately “wield [the machinery of the state] for its own purposes”

Example of the Paris Commune which was “to serve as a model to all the great industrial centres of France” (Civil War in France)

Question 7

Cohen

Answer 7

Productive forces dictate human history (functionalist)