Quiz 15 Flashcards
What extreme type of economy is based upon public ownership and governmental control of the production and distribution of nearly all natural resources?
Communist
Who formulated the basic ideas of Communism and advocated the overthrow of the free market?
Karl Marx
What famous book by Karl Marx stated: “In order to establish equality, we must first establish inequality.”
Das Kapital
Who are the property owners that must be overthrown in Communism?
Bourgeois
Who is the common working class in Communism?
Proletariat
What event began the rise of Communism?
The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917
What pamphlet outlines the steps that must be taken to establish Communism?
The Communist Manifesto
What is the promotion of one’s own nation and government regardless of moral considerations?
Nationalism
What is a perfect Marxist society called?
Utopia
According to Marx, what “ism” was a stepping stone between feudalism and socialist ideal?
Captialism
During the Cold War, what part of Berlin was under the Communist rule of Soviet Russia?
East Berlin
Communism, as experienced by Solzhenitsyn, has detrimental effects due to the government’s incompetence in what area?
Distribution
