Marx

Question 1

What is the history of all societies? (manifesto)

Answer 1

• history of class sturggle

- Oppresser and oppressed in complete opposition

Question 2

What is the executive of the state? (manifesto)

Answer 2

The committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie

Question 3

what do the bourgeoisie achieve by killing off feudal patriarchal relations? (manifesto)

Answer 3

-No other superior relationships to man, only relation between man and man is self interest

Question 4

What does the bourgeoisie turn every into? (manifesto)

Answer 4

Wage labourers

Question 5

What do commercial crises do to the bourgeois? (manifesto)

Answer 5

• destroy part of the productive forces
• We see epidemic of over-production…too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce and it all cuts off during crisis

Question 6

What happens when workers become demoralised? (manifesto)

Answer 6

they form trade unions

Question 7

What are most historical movements and why is communism different? (manifesto)

Answer 7

• Most are movements of the minority

- Communism is a majority movement

Question 8

What is the essential condition for the existence of the bourgeois class? (manifesto)

Answer 8

• Formation and augmentation of capital

- Condition for capital is wage labour

Question 9

What is the communists’ interest? (manifesto)

Answer 9

• Interest of the proletariat as a whole,

- The formation of the proletariat into a class

Question 10

What is the theory of communists essentially? (manifesto)

Answer 10

-the abolition of private property

Question 11

what is the difference between labour in communist and bourgeois society? (manifesto)

Answer 11

• In bourgeois society, living labour is but a means to increase accumulated labour
• In communist society accumulated labour is a means to enrich and promote the existence of the labourer

Question 12

What is the only power Communism deprives man of? (manifesto)

Answer 12

-Power to subjugate the labour of others

Question 13

Why do working men have no country? (manifesto)

Answer 13

-national differences are vanishing

Question 14

What will generally happen in communist countries? (manifesto)

Answer 14

.abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes

.heavy progressive or graduated income tax

.abolition of all right of inheritance

.confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels

.centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank.

-extension of factories and instruments of production
owned by the state,

improvement of the soil

.equal liability of all to labour

.combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries

.Free education for all

Question 15

What is the first premise of all human history? (Ideology)

Answer 15

-existence of living human individuals, distinguished from animals by consciousness, religion or anything else.

Question 16

What are some of the premises of History marx gives?(Ideology)

Answer 16

.Men must be able to live to make history

.Production of needs is first historical act

.Men make other men

.Connection of society is taking on new forms

Question 17

What is the true source and theatre of history?(Ideology)

Answer 17

-Civil society, it embraces the whole materiel intercourse of individuals

Question 18

History is nothing but…(Ideology)

Answer 18

the succession of the separate generations, each of which exploits the materials, the capital funds, the productive forces handed down to it by all preceding generations.

Question 19

How can history be distorted?(Ideology)

Answer 19

-By making late history look like the intention of early history eg discovery of America to further the eruption of French revolution

Question 20

What is the relationship between men and circumstances in history?(Ideology)

Answer 20

-Circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances

Question 21

What is the real essence of man?(Ideology)

Answer 21

-sum of productive forces, capital funds and social intercourse

Question 22

Why doesn’t religious emancipation necessitate actual emancipation? (Jewish Question)

Answer 22

• Marx makes point that the secular state in the USA hasn’t meant that religion has no place in society
• In addition, political emancipation isn’t same as human emancipation, people still tied to materialism.