This Week's Marxist IQ by Norman Markowitz

 

1.  In their lifetimes, Marx and Engels  opposed those on their right, Ferdinand La Salle and his  later followers, who

a. sought to reform capitalism

b. sought uncritical alliances with the capitalist state

c. sought revolution from above

d. sought revolution for the hell of it,

 

2. In their lifetimes, Marx and Englels opposed those on their left, Bakunin and his later followers, who 

1. opposed organizing workers to contend for state power

b. sought revolution from above

c. believed in tearing down capitalist society

d. believed in voluntary cooperation

 

3.  Lenin in his lifetime opposed Edward Bernstein and his followers who

a. believed that socialism would develop through evulution, not revolu;tion

b. that the movement and its advance was everything, theory nothing

c. that the development of capitalism made socialist revolution not possible

c. all of the above

 

4. Lenin  opposed the Mensheviks, who considered themselves Marxistts, in 1917 because,

a. they wanted to ally Russia with Germany in WWI

b. They supported a constitutional monarchy in Russia after the fall of the Czar

c. They supported the capitalist provisional government on the principle that socialist Soviet revolutionary government was not possilbe, given Russia's backwardness

d. They supported a U.S. style presidential system, with separation of powers and the Czarist empire turned into a United States of Russia

 

5. Which of the following slogans was not associated with the CPUSA

a. Communism is the Democracy of the 20th century

b.  CPUSA, Socialism in Our Day

c. Against Fascism and War

d. For Middle Class Democracy

I will get back with last week's right answers later

 

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  • 1. b

    2. 1

    3. a

    4. c

    5. d

    Posted by Sean Mulligan, 10/13/2012 4:11am (12 years ago)

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