Quiz: Evolutionary Socialism

14 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. Which work by Engels does Bernstein cite for the end of the age of revolutions by small minorities? His 1882 preface to the Russian edition of the Manifesto His 1894 preface to the third volume of Capital The Origin of the Family His 1895 introduction to The Class Struggles in France
2. What did the resolution Marx drew up for the Geneva Congress recommend to workers? Co-operative production rather than co-operative stores Avoiding co-operatives altogether in favour of trade unions Co-operative stores rather than co-operative production Seeking state credit for co-operative banks
3. How does Bernstein define socialism at the opening of Chapter III? As a science of society deduced from Marx’s theories of value and of surplus value As the class struggle of the workers for political power, and as nothing besides As a movement towards, or the state of, a society based on association As the ownership and management by the state of all the means of production and exchange
4. How does Bernstein answer Kautsky’s objection at Stuttgart? He withdraws his claim about the growth of property-owners and accepts Kautsky’s figures He says the proletariat is shrinking in absolute numbers, as the census shows He argues that Marx never wrote about the concentration of enterprises at all He meant property-owners, not enterprises; Kautsky confused capital with capitalists
5. What does Bernstein call the English book’s principal aim? To defend the dictatorship of the proletariat To refute the Fabian Society To prove the labour theory of value To stress the every-day work of the socialist party (Gegenwartsarbeit)
6. Which distinction does Bernstein use to sort the parts of Marxism? Base and superstructure Use value and exchange value Pure science and applied science Utopian and scientific socialism
7. What danger does Bernstein see in cartels and trusts for the working class? They make protective tariffs impossible Monopolist unions against workers and public, they could bring a new serfdom They raise wages so high that trade unions will soon become unnecessary They will certainly cause a final world crisis
8. Where, according to Bernstein, are the best-placed workers often found? Only in agriculture Only in state employment In trades with a very low rate of surplus value In trades with a very high rate of surplus value
9. What does Bernstein say about universal suffrage and Bismarck? It served Bismarck for a time but finally made him serve it It never affected Bismarck’s policy It was introduced by the Social Democrats against Bismarck’s will Bismarck abolished it outright with the Anti-Socialist Law of 1878
10. Which passage of Marx does Bernstein say he had in mind when writing that the ultimate aim is nothing and the movement everything? The closing words of the Communist Manifesto The preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy on social epochs The Civil War in France line that the workers have no ready-made utopias to realise The Theses on Feuerbach
11. What name does Bernstein suggest one might give socialism? “Scientific democracy” “Industrial feudalism” “Organising liberalism” “Municipal communism”
12. What does Bernstein conclude about British industry from the factory returns and the census? Small workshops have disappeared from Britain Almost all British workers are employed in factories of over fifty workers Medium and small businesses employ more people than the large industries Britain is industrially behind France
13. How does Bernstein explain his sentence that the “final aim of socialism” is nothing? He meant indifference to the final form of things, not to socialist principles He meant that only a revolution could decide the final aim He meant that socialism as a goal should be abandoned altogether He meant that the final aim had already been largely achieved in England
14. How does Bernstein treat the Manifesto’s sentence that the proletarian has no fatherland? As true in the 1840s, but less so as workers become citizens As a forgery inserted into the text by later editors of the Manifesto As a timeless truth forbidding socialists any defence of national interests or borders As applying only to agricultural labourers, who own no land of their own

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