Marxist IQ for the Week of January 7 by Norman Markowitz

by: Sunday 6 January 2013

1.       The contention that capitalism had changed since Marx’s time and that socialism would develop through evolve through reform not through revolution was associated with

a.       Leon Trotsky

b.      Edward Bernstein

c.       Ho Chi Minh

d.      Kwame Nkrumah

2.       Proletarian Internationalism  as a policy began with

a.       The formation of the Comintern in 1919

b.      The Establishment of the World Federation of Trade Unions in 1945

c.       The formation of the First International in the 1860s  and its call for workers to aid each other and oppose national wars against each other

d.      The  formation of the United Nations after WWII.

 

3.       Marx defined the essence of the capitalist system as

a.       The attempt to advance freedom and democracy through the world

b.      a system of free markets and free enterprise

c.       the manipulations of evil men

d.      the use of money(capital) to produce goods to make more money(capital)

4.       Marx saw capitalism as a system doomed in the long run because

a.        Its pursuit of profit leads  it to overproduce  and saturate makets

b.      Its pursuit of profit leads it to pay workers less and less and thus reduce mass purchasing power

c.       Its pursuit of profit leads it to seek cheap raw materials and captive markets through the world through imperialism and imperialist created wars

d.      All of the above

 

5.       Marx believed that only the working class could end capitalism and establish socialism because

a.       It owned nothing but its labor

b.      It worked collectively to produce all of the goods that the capitalist class owned

c.       There was no other force in society whose organization both represented the great majority of people and whose interest was in a new system/mode of production

d.      All of the above

      

Answers to last week's Marxist IQ

 

 

1.d

2.c

3.c

4.c

5.d

 

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • 1. b

    2. c

    3. d

    4.d

    5. d

    Posted by Sean Mulligan, 01/10/2013 12:14am (12 years ago)

  • Ditto brother Sean Mulligan for this writer's answers.

    5. is interesting-a powerful question with answers furnished by brother Norman Markowitz.
    In brother Karl Marx's system, labor-not God(as if they were different)had created the human 'species being'(Gattungswesen). More than this-this 'species being' had been produced in human community and not isolated boring monotony.
    Capitalism is a fact and manifestation of violent theft of human community production-privately owned after being stolen by expropriating rulers of empire-imperialist, who adamantly, murderously and wantonly damn the origin of its own socio-economic foundation.
    This leads to what Henry Winston called omnicide(Winston uses it to describe problems associated with nuclear armaments, but it applies generally)-the willy-nilly, all around destruction of all living species having evolved in, with and through pre-capitalist and capitalist/imperialist socio-economic formations and nature.
    On this basis, communists urge scientists, environmentalists, anti-imperialists, community activists, feminists, Pan-Africanists, all workers, female and male, gay and strait to join the Communist Party and as the friendly, great Paul Robeson has sang in "Jacobs Ladder"-JOIN US IN THIS FIGHT".
    Let us work to return production back to community-for socialism-our planet and its teeming life depends on it.

    Posted by E.E.W. Clay, 01/08/2013 1:37pm (12 years ago)

  • 1. b

    2. c

    3. d

    4. d

    5.d

    Posted by Sean Mulligan, 01/07/2013 4:18am (12 years ago)

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