HUM 400: Ethics Quiz #14 (Communism & Socialism)

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According to Karl Marx, who are the two opposing social classes? (pick two): *

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the bourgeoisie

the Politburo

the "worried well"

the meat group

the proletariat

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Marxism is strongly in favor of elitism. *

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True

False

Communism is a totalitarian system of government noted for the supremacy of the state over the individual, based on the single-party system of all power exercised by the Communist Party. *

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False

In countries where communism is practiced and where it is seen as a coherent theory, stress is laid on the party as an elite, to be kept select by periodical purges, peaceable or violent. The Communist Party forms, in effect, an oligarchy, in whose hands all real power rests. *

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True

False

Socialism is not an egalitarian doctrine. *

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True

False

Weirdly, Karl Marx was deeply interested in freedom. *

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What was the most important social class, according to Marx? *

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The big bourgeoisie

The petty bourgeoisie

The proletariat (working class)

What causes poverty, according to socialism? *

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Unethical people

Laissez-faire capitalism

Automation

Small businesses

How was the new socialist world supposed to happen? *

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Workers would honk their horns all on the same day.

Poor people would go on a hunger strike, en masse, until the political system changed.

The working class would rise up and overthrow the capitalist elites in a revolution.

Marx believed that if socialism was allowed to flourish, most consumer goods would become so abundant that the question of allocation would become irrelevant. Nations would disappear, allocation problems would vanish, and there would be a single, unified mankind! *

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