Having been away for a while and more ovewhelmed with work, I hadn't posted this months Marxist IQ.  But better late than never

1. The Communist Party USA has long described the whole system that Americans currently live under as

    a. free market capitalism

     b. democratic capitalism

    c. state monopoly capitalism

   d. a mixed economy

  2.  The political power of rightwing "conservative" politicians and parties in the U.S. is best understood

        in the following way

       a. the unregulated use of money in U.S. politics to control media

       b. the use of racist and other prejudices to divide working people and make them fight each other

       c. the very low turnouts by world standards in U.S. elections, especially among low income people

       d. all if the above

 3,  The cry from capitalist sources that "Communism is dead" was first heard

      a. after the fall of the Soviet Union  in 1991

      b. after the defeat of the revolutions of 1848

      c. after the defeat of the Japanese invasion of China in 1937

     4.  After the defeat of the revolution of 1905

4. In times of crisis and political confusion, these words by Lenin should always be remembered

a. all power to the Soviets

b. bread, land and peace

c. the most important virtue of a revolutionary is patience

d. boycott the duma(parliament)

5.  To paraphrase Mao Tse-tung, the goal of U.S. Communists and all partisans of socialism should be

   a. to make a cultural revolution

   b. to surround the cities

   c. to struggle to build a socialism based on American charateristic

d. all of the above