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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ludwig Feuerbach?

2. If power was in the hands of the rich, it is called what?

3. What did Pythagoras argue?

4. Marx argued in ________________________ that the more a worker produced, the less he could consume, and the more value a man creates, the less he has.

5. What does not offer proof for those things that it proposes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Marx and Engels get the opportunity to write the Communist Manifesto?

2. For what ideas was Hegel attacked? Why was he attacked?

3. What is meant by materialism becoming mechanistic?

4. What is the importance of competition? What example does Marx give to support this? How does this factor into capitalism?

5. What took place after the Greek epoch? Describe this period of time.

6. How was religion used to keep workers enslaved?

7. What can be learned from the information in this chapter?

8. What is surplus value? How does this affect the worker?

9. Why does Marx not believe that simply raising the workers' salaries would change the situation?

10. What are dialectics and the dialectical method?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marx concerned himself less with making a living than asking the meaning of life.

Part 1) Why was he not concerned about making a living? How did this affect his life?

Part 2) Is this desire to contemplate the meaning of life and disregard making a living due to environmental influences or hereditary influences?

Part 3) If Marx had been born in a different era, could he have had other interests and desires? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Karl Marx was a Jewish German.

Part 1) Why did he not consider himself a Jew? With what religious organization was he once affiliated? Why might this have changed?

Part 2) If he had been raised in a different religion or church, could he have grown up as a religious person? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do his feelings towards religion affect his political beliefs?

Essay Topic 3

Empiricism existed before Marxism.

Part 1) What is empiricism? How did this belief come to exist?

Part 2) How did men like Locke and Hume support this idea of empiricism? How did their beliefs, in turn, affect the leaders during their time?

Part 3) What role did empiricism play in the history of our own country?

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