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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. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.

2. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?

3. What ushers in the class struggles of the long revolutionary periods, according to Hegel?

4. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?

5. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the role of science in Utopian society?

2. What three things does the spectacle become, as explained in thesis 3?

3. What is the struggle between proletarian conception and bourgeois conception, as it is described at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. What is the relationship between commodity and consumption within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?

5. What is the difference between socialist revolution and anarchist revolution in Chapter 4?

6. According to the quote by Lukacs at the beginning of Chapter 2, what does the commodity represent in society?

7. In Chapter 2, how have the forces of production changed the basis for human development?

8. How has the commodity turned the whole planet into a single world market, according to Debord?

9. How is the "commodity world" shown for what it really is, in Debord's opinion?

10. What effect did education of the proletariat have on revolution, according to Debord?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has The Society of the Spectacle impacted your political or sociological views about life in America? Is America a society of the spectacle? What are specific examples?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life and work of Guy Debord, his Marxist theories, and their impact on economic and political philosophies.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the differences between socialism, communism, and capitalism, and their respective places within the society of the spectacle.

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