Marx And Engels

Question 1

What is the famous opening line of the communist manifesto

Answer 1

History of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle

Question 2

What is the essential argument of the communist manifesto

Answer 2

All changes in the shape of society, in political institutions, in history itself, are driven by a process of collective struggle on the part of groups of people with similar economic situations in order to realise the material or economic interests

Question 3

Where is the arena for the formation of a class struggle that will spill over in to society at large?

Answer 3

The factory

Question 4

What was the communist manifesto intended as

Answer 4

A definitive programmatic statement of the communist league - German revolutionary group that Marx and Engel led

Question 5

When was the communist manifesto published

Answer 5

February 1848

Question 6

What can we refer to the communist manifesto as?

Answer 6

A call to political action? Containing the famous command ‘workers of the world unite’

Question 7

Explain marxs theory of historical materialism

Answer 7

Historical change is driven by collective actors attempting to realise their economic aims, resulting in class struggles in which one economic and political order is replaced by another. Social relationships and political alliances form around relations of production

Question 8

Who was a key influence of Karl Marx

Answer 8

George friedrich Hegel

Question 9

What were Hegels central ideals

Answer 9

Ideas themselves evolve according to a continual process of contradiction and resolution and human history is driven by this dialectical evolution of ideas