Here is this week's IQ relates Marx and Marxism to politics

1Marx saw the expanding colonial empires of his time as

   a. a good thing

   b. morally wrong

   c. Capitalism further digging its own grave as it sought to overcome its general crisis

   d. the best way to bring socialism to  the world

2. Marx  saw the working class as

  a. the middle class

  b, the class whos survival would compel it to abolish capitalism and replace it with socialism

   c. a class of moochers who paid no taxes and lived on welfare

   d. the hard working salt of the earth

3.Marx expected socialism to

  a. sweep to victory through the world

   b. be established in feudal and semi-feudal societies like Czarist Russia and Confucian China

   c.  be established by evolving from capitalism

   d. be established through revolutions which would differ in many places, result in partial victories, defeats, and detours before they were fully triumphant in creating a new society

4 Writing on the American Civil War Marx

a, denounced Lincoln and the Republicans as no different than Buchanan and the Democrats

 b.  Called upn the workers in the North and the South to overthrow the union and  

     confederate goverments

 c. defended the Lincoln administration from its critics as  representing new class and social    forces whose victory would both end slavery and strengthen the working class

  d. saw a confederate victory as more likely to advance a socialist revolution

5. Marx in hia time saw working class political action as

   a. based solely on supporting existing parties on the lesser of two evils principle

   b.criticizing capitalism and  keeping out of electoral politics until a  a socialist mass party   

     came into existence

   c. organizing workers to struggle for democratic rights/reforms within existing political structures while educating workers that these democratic rights/reforms were stepping stones, not substitutes for socialism and would only stand as long as they were strong enough to maintain them

d.  Find charismatic leaders who would be able to mobolize and unify workers to win elections, form governments, and then use mass media to advertise and implement socialist policies

Bonus Question

If Marx were around  today in 2012 he would

a. realize that he was wrong about capitalism

b. realize that he was wrong about the working class

c.  See the 20th century, the Soviet and Chinese Revolutions, the victories and the defeats, as the beginning for socialism and the beginning of the end for capitalism

d.  see globalization making socialism impossible

Answers to last week's IQ

1.b

2.c

3.d

4.b

5.a