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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. Where was the Agrarian Reformers working class party located?

2. Who supports the Radicals?

3. What does wage labor not create for the laborer?

4. Bourgeois socialism attains adequate ______ when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.

5. Who requested that The Communist Manifesto be authored?

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the idea of the bourgeois society and group.

2. The Communists fight for the attainment of what kinds of aims?

3. Why has the work of the proletarians lost all individual character?

4. What does Communism seek to do with property?

5. Who are the authors of the Communist Manifesto?

6. What does reactionary socialism, specifically feudal socialism literature, seek to upbraid the bourgeoisie about?

7. List some of the opposing groups that The Communist Manifesto lists in the first pages of this section.

8. Whose vocation had it been previously to write pamphlets against the modern bourgeois society?

9. Define the idea of the proletariat.

10. What did the true socialism of Germany represent with regard to the reactionary interests?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Capitalism, in Marx's opinion, seems to be the root of all evil.

Part 1: Define the idea of capitalism.

Part 2: What makes capitalism something that is necessary in society?

Part 3: How does capitalism hurt society?

Essay Topic 2

Though the arguments in The Communist Manifesto are found, the idea of communism is not something that has spread throughout the world.

Part 1: Do you think the argument in this text is strong? How? Why?

Part 2: Why has Communism not been as effective in today's world as Marx envisioned?

Part 3: Do you see Communism as a viable societal construct? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The proletariat seem to be the ones that are meant to change the world.

Part 1: Why are the proletariat called upon to revolt?

Part 2: Why haven't previous proletariat revolutions been successful?

Part 3: How have the proletariat already worked together to change their lives?

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