Marx believed that the socialist revolutions would first occur in
a. advanced industrial societies.
b. agriculturally-based societies.
c. countries with repressive governments.
d. countries with a small working class.
e. countries with small, but committed, socialist movements.
Q. 2In Marxist thought, profit
a. requires exploitation of the working class.
b. will pull the working class out of poverty.
c. gives owners resources that they can use for the common good.
d. will be the driving force in a socialist economy.
e. is the proper reward for entrepreneurial activity.
Q. 3Marx borrowed which idea from Georg Hegel, who believed that societies shift from one stage to another?
a. Proletariat
b. Bourgeoisie
c. Nomenklatura
d. Historical materialism
e. Dialectic
Q. 4To varying degrees, socialists generally agree that
a. providing for public ownership and control of a substantially more egalitarian society will improve humanrelations in general.
b. private property cannot be permitted.
c. democracy cannot be allowed to prevent the creation of an egalitarian society.
d. freedom from hunger, disease, and poverty must be earned.
e. equality of opportunity is a sufficient goal.
Q. 5Along with Karl Marx, which individual wrote The Communist Manifesto that first set out the ideas later known as Marxism?
a. Vladimir Lenin
b. Josef Stalin
c. Friedrich Engels
d. Leon Trotsky
e. Mao Zedong
Q. 6Socialism can be traced back to which seventeenth-century English movement?
a. Protestants
b. Anglicans
c. Catholics
d. Levelers
e. Communists
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