Marx

Question 1

What is historical materialism?

Accepted Answer

The view that history is driven by material conditions and class struggle

Question 2

What are alternative theories Marx rejects?

Accepted Answer

Great man theory and Hegelian idealism

Question 3

How does Marx understand human nature?

Accepted Answer

Humans are productive beings expressing themselves through labor

Question 4

What is wage labor?

Accepted Answer

Workers sell their labor while capitalists take the product and profit

Question 5

Who are the bourgeoisie?

Accepted Answer

Owners of the means of production

Question 6

Who are the proletariat?

Accepted Answer

Workers who must sell their labor

Question 7

What are the means of production?

Accepted Answer

Tools, factories, land, resources

Question 8

What are relations of production?

Accepted Answer

Class relations based on control of the means of production

Question 9

What is alienation from the product?

Accepted Answer

The worker does not control what they produce

Question 10

What is alienation from the act of production?

Accepted Answer

Labor becomes external and coerced

Question 11

What is alienation from species-being?

Accepted Answer

Humans cannot engage in free, creative labor

Question 12

What is alienation from other humans?

Accepted Answer

Workers compete instead of cooperating

Question 13

What does communism advocate?

Accepted Answer

Abolition of private ownership of the means of production

Question 14

What is communism’s guiding principle?

Accepted Answer

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs

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