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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. Describe Trotsky's early relationship with Lenin.

2. How does Edmund Wilson characterize Marx's view of Das Kapital?

3. What did Engels see as a sign of the workers' poor working conditions?

4. What did "The Condition of the Working Class in England" do for Marx?

5. According to Trotsky, why did the 1905 revolt fail?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does dialectical materialism correlate to economic phenomena?

2. What are the ten points addressed in the Communist Manifesto?

3. Describe Lenin's relationship with his wife.

4. Describe Lenin's temperament and methods.

5. What was Marx' engagement with the Workers' Associations by the time Das Kapital was finished?

6. What is dialectical materialism?

7. Describe Ferdinand Lassalle's career.

8. How was Engels brought to socialism?

9. Describe the relationship between Lenin and Trotsky.

10. What was Marx' standard for saying that the proletariat and bourgeoisie moralities are opposed to each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Edmund Wilson says that Comte d Saint-Simon represented the new kind of writer. Describe the transition taking place in Europe for which Saint-Simon was an emblem.

Essay Topic 2

Which thinkers would have been satisfied with the Russian Revolution as the fulfillment of their work? Which thinkers would have been horrified? Explain how three philosophers' work would have been fulfilled or betrayed by the Communist Revolution.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the philosophies of two political or economic philosophers of your choice. How are their philosophies similar? How are they different?

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