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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. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?

2. Production was initially a means of what?

3. What year did Marx's revolution fail?

4. In Debord's opinion, the spectacle is an heir to the ______ of Western philosophy.

5. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the paradoxes of the spectacle, as described at the end of Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 2, how have the forces of production changed the basis for human development?

3. What is the commodity cycle within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?

4. What is the dichotomy of the spectacle, according to thesis 8?

5. How do Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution demonstrate the problems of an educated proletariat?

6. What does Debord mean when he says that the spectacle should be viewed as "a weltanschauung"?

7. How does Debord believe the spectacle emerges as the totality of social life?

8. What role did Hegel have in interpreting the world?

9. What role does Debord believe celebrity plays in the spectacle?

10. What effect did education of the proletariat have on revolution, according to Debord?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the destructive force of the commodity within the spectacle and the effect Debord believes this has on the consumer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life and work of Guy Debord, his Marxist theories, and their impact on economic and political philosophies.

Essay Topic 3

How is the society of the spectacle "ideology par excellence"? What is the nature of ideology, according to Debord?

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