Quiz: A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Programme of 1891

All 15 questions. A perfect score earns the gold medal; 80% earns silver.

1. What does Engels say the state cannot forbid religious communities to do? Teach in the public schools Collect church taxes Receive public funds Found schools from their own means
2. What did Liebknecht call the Reichstag? The bulwark of German unity The fig-leaf of absolutism The talking shop of the bourgeoisie The parliament of the workers
3. What kind of programme does Engels want? As short and precise as possible A list of immediate demands only A long historical narrative A full popular commentary
4. What does Engels praise the draft for having removed? All mention of the peasants Lassallean and vulgar-socialist remnants The demand for universal suffrage The theory of surplus-value
5. What does Engels want added to the list of means of labour in paragraph 1? Banks and credit Forests and other natural resources Railways and other means of transport Newspapers
6. Instead of growing misery, what does Engels say certainly grows? The size of the middle class Real wages Insecurity of existence The number of capitalists
7. What does Engels call the democratic republic? The final goal of communism A bourgeois trap to be avoided A form suitable only for France and Switzerland The specific form for the dictatorship of the proletariat
8. Which tiny state does Engels set against Prussia to mock German “federation”? Hamburg Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Reuss-Greiz-Schleiz-Lobenstein Württemberg
9. What does Engels want added after “class rule” in paragraph 10? “and of landed property” “and of classes themselves” “and of the monarchy” “and of the standing army”
10. Whom does Engels cite as a former comrade who became a minister under an emperor? Lassalle Miquel Caprivi Vollmar
11. Why does Engels object to “capitalist private production”? Capitalism has no planlessness Private production did not exist under feudalism at all The phrase is too foreign Joint-stock companies and trusts are no longer private
12. Why does Engels oppose chambers of labour half of workers and half of employers? One black sheep among the workers would give the employers a majority They would cost the workers more in dues than they could ever win The state would appoint the workers’ half from loyal foremen Employers would refuse to sit in them or to accept any of their rulings
13. What image does Engels use for the old society’s transformation? A train running over a wheelbarrow A seed growing into a tree A snake shedding its skin A crab bursting its shell
14. How does Engels judge a Swiss-style federal system for Germany? A matter of indifference A step forward, as in England A necessity, as in America An enormous step backward
15. Where does Engels think the old society might grow peacefully into the new? Where representatives hold all power, as in France, America and England Nowhere at all, since every ruling class will always defend its rule by force In Russia, where the village commune could pass straight to socialism unaided In Germany, where universal suffrage already elects the members of the Reichstag

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