The Marxist Stage Theory (pre-1917)

Question 1

Stage 1

Answer 1

there were no classes or private property (primitive communism)

Question 2

Stage 2

Answer 2

A strong man rose to the top and a new land-owning aristocracy created (Imperialism)

Question 3

Stage 3

Answer 3

land owned by the aristocracy who exploited the peasantry (Feudalism)

Question 4

Stage 4

Answer 4

merchants and the ‘bourgeoisie’ obtained political control and exploited the workers (Capitalism)

Question 5

Stage 5

Answer 5

the workers took control in a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’, sharing food, goods and services according to need (socialism)

Question 6

Stage 6

Answer 6

all would join together for the common good and money and states would no longer be needed. Ward and competition would cease (communism)