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24 Cards in this Set
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Author of The Republic
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Plato
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Author of The Communist Mannifesto
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Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels
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Author of Utopia
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Sir Thomas More
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Author of Origin of the Species
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Charles Darwin
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Author of What is to Be Done
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Lenin
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Accoring to Hegel's theory a clash of opposites to produce something new is known as
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"dialectic"
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Written in 1848 this book set forth the basic tenets of communism
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The Communist Manifesto
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T or F - Communism promises to end human exploitation by means of a world-wide worker revolution
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True
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According to Marx what theory deals with a clash of opposing economic classes of people
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Dialectical Materialism
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T or F - According to Marx the causation of all history is best explained by religious and/or spiritual factors
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False
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In terms of dialectical materialism the capitalistic owners of the factories and other means of production are referred to as
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Bourgeoisie
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According to Marx the factory workers are known as
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Proletariat
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Marx's major work which contained his theories about the evils of capitalism written in 1867 was called
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Das Kapital
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What did Marx believe was the greatest economic evil
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Private Ownership (of property etc)
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T or F - Engel's was Marx's financial backer and philosophical associate
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True
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Marx referred to his classless society as
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Utopia
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T or F - Marx's writings caused many to consider economic factors in the shaping of political events and social changes
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True
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T or F - One of the weaknesses of a Marxist economy is that the economy stagnates bc the gov't of the Communist party is hte only participant in the means of production
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True
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One of the greatest failures of Marx was that he neglected to recognize the strength of
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Nationalism
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Marx designed his theories for
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Everyone
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T or F - Marx believed that the economic system of capitalism contained the "seeds of its own destruction"
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True
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The Heglian term Thesis matches with the Marxist term
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Bourgeoisie
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The Heglian term Antithesis matches with the Marxist term
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Proletariat
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The Heglian term Synthesis matches with the Marxist term
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Utopia
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