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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rius examines the roots of Marxism. At what does he begin by looking?

2. If power was in the hands of the people, it was what?

3. Marx is a materialist and his work attempts to bring more consistency to _______________.

4. Seeing the world as mechanical is also known as what?

5. Descartes used a _______________ logic to examine the world.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are three of Greece's most well-known and important philosophers? Give detailed information about the theories of one of these philosophers.

2. How does Rius begin to examine the roots of Marxism?

3. What took place after the Greek epoch? Describe this period of time.

4. How do the foundations of Marx's economic thought begin to come together?

5. How did Marx and Engels get the opportunity to write the Communist Manifesto?

6. What was the Communist Manifesto?

7. Who are the two types of men philosophy sees? Describe these two types.

8. What are dialectics and the dialectical method?

9. What is meant by materialism becoming mechanistic?

10. Who was Ludwig Feuerbach?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Through Lenin, Marx's ideas reach a world audience.

Part 1) Who was Lenin? How did he use Marx's work? Why did he use Marx's work?

Part 2) Why was Marx relatively unknown during his lifetime? How then did his ideas become popular and well-known through Lenin?

Part 3) How did Lenin both help and hurt Marx's philosophies?

Essay Topic 2

Karl Marx was a Jewish German.

Part 1) Why did he not consider himself a Jew? With what religious organization was he once affiliated? Why might this have changed?

Part 2) If he had been raised in a different religion or church, could he have grown up as a religious person? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do his feelings towards religion affect his political beliefs?

Essay Topic 3

French socialism was a major influence on Marx.

Part 1) Who are the French socialists? In what did they believe?

Part 2) Are their ideas about society possible? Why or why not?

Part 3) How did Marx use the ideas of these socialists to expand upon or support his own ideas?

Part 4) How did Marx take these philosophical views and make them more practical? Do you agree with these practical views on how to solve the economic problems for exploited workers? Why or why not?

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