Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin

Question 1

Karl Marx was born in Rhineland, which was?

Answer 1

part of Germany that was strongly permeated with democratic ideas by the French Revolution

Question 2

Who was Marx’s lifetime collaborator?

Answer 2

Friedrich Engels

Question 3

Marx’s died in London in ?

Answer 3

1883

Question 4

One of Marx main influences was?

Answer 4

The German philosopher. G.W.F Hegel

Question 5

Both Hegel and Marx believed that history..?

Answer 5

had meaning and that it moved in a set pattern toward a known goal

Question 6

For Marx, this known goal was?

Answer 6

The classless society, leading to full human freedom

Question 7

For Hegel this known goal was?

Answer 7

the victory of reason and spirit over enslavement to caprice and passion

Question 8

What was Marx’s view on the french revolution?

Answer 8

he theorized that it was the best method of destroying a capitalist society

Question 9

Marx’ dialectic materialism proposed…?

Answer 9

that political and historical events are due to the conflict arising from economic conditions

Question 10

What did thesis, antithesis and synthesis represent for Marx?

Answer 10

thesis was the existing order which would be challenged and overthrown by the antithesis and the new order that was created would be the synthesis

Question 11

The first stage of communism (socialism) is guided by the principle?

Answer 11

“from each according to his ability, to each according to his work.”

Question 12

The second and final stage is guided by the principle?

Answer 12

“from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”

Question 13

For Marx, under capitalism work is not fulfilling as it is..?

Answer 13

not voluntary but forced labour

Question 14

What is the driving force behind the class struggle needed to effect social change and progress to overthrow the capitalist state?

Answer 14

class consciousness

Question 15

Marx labelled religion the opium of the masses because..?

Answer 15

it offered the proletariat a means of accepting their station in life

Question 16

For Marx and Engels, the history of the existing society…?

Answer 16

is the history of class struggles

Question 17

V.I. Lenin (1870-1924) was the creator

Answer 17

of a distinctive version of marxism as a revolutionary theory

Question 18

Lenin held that seizure of power from below should be followed by?

Answer 18

a dictatorship of the revolutionary party

Question 19

The revolutionary party would use what instead of coercion to transform the country on socialist lines?

Answer 19

propaganda

Question 20

Lenin’s work What is to be done, described?

Answer 20

the need to create the right kind of revolutionary party for russia’s special conditions

Question 21

Imperialism for Lenin in an economic sense is?

Answer 21

the highest form of capitalism