Marxism

Question 1

Whose ideas is Marxism based on ?

Answer 1

Marx and Engels

Question 2

What are the key socialist principle of Marxism ?

Answer 2

Faternity , solidarity and equality

Question 3

What is equality incompatible with ?

Answer 3

With capitalism

Question 4

What does capitalism renforce ?

Answer 4

Selfishness and competition

Question 5

What will capitalism push into workers

Answer 5

False class consciousness

Question 6

What does capitalism cause to workers ?

Answer 6

Oppression, exploitation and alienation of workers

Question 7

What will oppression and alienation of capitalism lead to ?

Answer 7

Class war

Question 8

In society working class are not class consciousness but overtime people will talk to one another understand position so what will this create ?

Answer 8

Class consciousness

Question 9

Gaining class consciousness

What will workers do once they gain consciousness?

Answer 9

• remove capitalism
• establish socialism
• state will wither away

Question 10

State will move through different stages and eventually reach where ?

Answer 10

Communism

Question 11

What did Marxism refer communism as ?

Answer 11

Historical materialism

Question 12

What are the key ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ?

Answer 12

• the centrality of social class
• humans as social beings

Question 13

What is the points of the centrality of social class ?

Answer 13

• ideas of historical materialism
• dialect change
• revolutionary class consciousness

Question 14

What is humans as social beings ?

Answer 14

How nature is socially determined and how true common humanity can be expressed under communism

Question 15

What do both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels provide for their perspective ?

Answer 15

Provide reinterpretation of history and a revolutionary model of a utopian society

Question 16

Where does class struggle arise from according to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ?

Answer 16

From property ownership

Question 17

What does Capitalism come with according to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ?

Answer 17

Crisis and recession

Question 18

Who will crisis and recession of capitalist benifit ?

Answer 18

Only a tiny minority of the ruling class

Question 19

What will vast of individuals form ? And what will they do and achieve ? According to Karl Marx and Engels

Answer 19

Form the proletariat who will wake up to their exploitation and achieve false consciousness

Question 20

When proletariat overthrow capitalism what will happen ?

Answer 20

Dictatorship of the proletirat

Question 21

After a period of transition what will happen according to Marx and Engels ?

Answer 21

State will wither away and stateless communist society will emerge

Question 22

A stateless communist society will emerge based on what according to Karl Marx and Engels ?

Answer 22

Based on common ownership

Question 23

Who was heavily influenced by Marx and Engels ?

Answer 23

Rosa Luxembourg

Question 24

What did Luxembourg disagree with Marx with

Answer 24

• historical materialism

Question 25

Why did Rosa Luxembourg disagree with historical materialism?

Answer 25

Says less ecomically developed societies could have a communist revolution and did not need to wait until capitalism has reached final stage

Question 26

What socialism was Marx , Engels and Rosa Luxembourg?

Answer 26

Revolutionary socialism

Question 27

What is revolutionary socialism?

Answer 27

Abolish capitalist economy, state and society and replace it wil communism based on collectivism