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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. The price of a commodity or product is created through what?

2. Who were the individuals who tried to find logical explanations for natural events?

3. What is the second stage, according to Vico?

4. What increases alienation?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the ideas of Giambattista Vico?

2. How do the foundations of Marx's economic thought begin to come together?

3. How might a socialist system be practical?

4. What does Marx say about the capitalist?

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

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

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

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

9. Who are the two types of men philosophy sees? Describe these two types.

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

Marx's work birthed political journalism.

Part 1) Describe Marx's work and its connection to journalism.

Part 2) How had journalism been changed and/or improved by Marx?

Part 3) How does journalism today reflect Marx's career as a writer and editor? Would you agree that he "birthed political journalism?" Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Rius has divided up Marx's work into three "basics."

Part 1) What are the "basics?" Describe each of them.

Part 2) How do the ideas of other philosophers influence each of these "basics?"

Part 3) How do each of these "basics" support Marx's overall beliefs, as well as communism? How have these "basics" been used by governments recently in history?

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