Quiz: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

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

1. What does Engels say happens to the state when the proletariat takes the means of production into social ownership? It is abolished by decree It becomes a world state It becomes stronger than ever It is not abolished; it dies out
2. What event, according to Engels, “sounded the knell of English insular exclusiveness”? The Crimean War The repeal of the Corn Laws The Reform Act of 1832 The exhibition of 1851
3. Which great cotton mill did Owen direct from 1800 to 1829? New Lanark, in Scotland Quarry Bank, near Manchester Saltaire, in Yorkshire Cromford, in Derbyshire
4. How does Engels describe Fourier, besides being a critic? One of the greatest satirists A political revolutionary in the Jacobin tradition A dull systematiser of utopian plans A religious prophet of a new church
5. How do social forces act until we understand them, according to Engels? Rationally and predictably Not at all According to the will of the ruling class, which directs them Like natural forces: blindly, forcibly, destructively
6. Whose dialectical method does Engels say Fourier used as masterfully as his contemporary? Fichte’s Schelling’s Hegel’s Kant’s
7. What happened to Owen when he advanced towards communism? He lost the applause of society and was ostracised He was made a peer He became Prime Minister He won a seat in Parliament and the backing of the Whigs
8. What does Engels say the eighteenth-century philosophers’ “kingdom of reason” really was? The kingdom of the workers A religious utopia An enlightened despotism The idealised kingdom of the bourgeoisie
9. Which country does Engels call the original home of all modern materialism? France England Germany Holland
10. On whose cooperation does Engels say the triumph of the European working class depends? Germany alone The workers of America At least England, France and Germany England alone
11. What does Engels’s summary call the growing displacement of labourers by machinery? The industrial reserve-army The lumpenproletariat The surplus class The army of labour
12. What does Engels call the task of scientific socialism, in the closing paragraph? To give the proletariat full knowledge of the conditions and meaning of its historical act To design in detail the ideal society the proletariat must establish To reconcile the classes by showing the bourgeoisie that its true interest lies in reform To win parliamentary majorities by spreading socialist ideas among all classes of voters
13. What term does Engels propose for the conception of history in the book, rather than “historical agnosticism”? Historical dialecticism Evolutionary positivism Historical evolutionism Historical materialism

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