1.       The late nineteenth century socialist trade unionist who led the campaign for Labor Day was

a.       Samuel Gompers of the Cigarmakers

b.      Allen Pinkerton of the Detectives

c.       Peter McGuire of the Carpenters

d.      John L. Lewis of the Miners

2.       It has been argued that sections of the U.S. capitalist class came to accept labor day because

a.       It enabled them to pretend to be friends of labor

b.      Of the influence of beer brewers and meat packers

c.       They saw it as an alternative to May Day

d.      They could concentrate their police spies on Labor Day

3.       The attitude of the capitalist class toward the working class in U.S. history was best expressed by

a.       Jay Gould when he said “I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half”

b.      Herbert Hoover when he promised workers “a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage”

c.       Dwight Eisenhower when he spoke of “democratic capitalism "where workers would own more and more stocks and bonds

d.      Ronald Reagan when he boasted that he was the first trade union leader(Screen Actors Guild) to reach the presidency.

4.       Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs contended that the capitalist class saw the working class as

5.       a.Human beings with human rights

6.       b.Hands to run machines, cheaper and more replacable then the machines

7.       c. Consumers to be reached with advertising

e.   Citizens whos civil rights should be respected

5. Most labor historians believe that  ____ was the most important victory ever won by U.S. Labor, although many still fear to record that the victory was won by cadre of_____

a. the defense of the Air Traffic Controllers    and the ALF-CIO leadership

b. The Establishment of OHSA    and the Nixon administration

c. The Flint, Michigan General Motors Strike    and the Communist Party, USA

d. The Anthacite Coal Strike   and the administration of Theodore Roosevelt                                  

Answers to The last Marxist IQ attempt to educate Republicans with farewell  commentary

1.b, i.e. the Republican energy policy can only lead to fossil fuel depletion and higher energy costs long run for  any society on earth

2.  c, i.e.the Republicans  economic policy can only lead to  greater monopoly, income inequality, and environmental destruction for any society on earth

3 c, i.e, the last successful business leader to run on that and win as a Republican was Herbert Hoover and what a great choice he turned out to be

4 a., i.e, the fifteen fold deficit increase was totally the result of the huge increase in military spending along with the huge tax cuts for corporations and the rich, a policy that George HW Bush called Voodoo Economics before it began in 1980 and which he subsequently practiced as President(1989-1993) 

5. d., socialist theory and practice is all of the above, none of which the Democrats would even think of enacting unless there was a powerful mass labor/peoples upsurge and series of victories and any or all of which the Republicans fight with massive internal repression.

As a final farewell to the Republican convention let me remind readers of this famous comment by George Bernard Shaw.  Those who preach the doctrine of class struggle are constantly been attacked and harrassed by those who practice class struggle.  That has been true of the Republicans as a party since the late nineteenth century, only today they harass and attack not only Communists, socialists and Occupiers but  centrists, moderate reformers, including many who would have been Republicans in the late 19th century