Quiz: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

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1. What are the three sources of Marxism according to Lenin? Hegel’s dialectics, Feuerbach’s materialism and Darwin’s evolution French philosophy, German political economy and English socialism Greek philosophy, Roman law and the ethics of the Christian Gospels German philosophy, English political economy, French socialism
2. What could utopian socialism not do, according to Lenin? Criticise capitalist society or condemn its injustices Win any followers Find the social force able to create a new society Imagine a better social order to replace capitalism
3. Which works does Lenin call handbooks for every class-conscious worker? What Is to Be Done? and Iskra Capital and The Poverty of Philosophy The Holy Family and The German Ideology Ludwig Feuerbach, Anti-Dühring and the Communist Manifesto
4. What does Lenin say is the philosophy of Marxism? Materialism Absolute idealism Empirio-criticism Neo-Kantianism
5. How does Lenin say bourgeois science regards Marxism? As a branch of liberalism As a kind of “pernicious sect” As a respectable rival school As an outdated German philosophy
6. What does Lenin name as the chief achievement of German classical philosophy that Marx took up? The categorical imperative Dialectics The theory of natural rights and the social contract The labour theory of value
7. Which discoveries does Lenin say confirmed dialectical materialism? Evolution and the theory of the cell Radium, electrons, transmutation Electricity, magnetism and the ether The steam engine, the telegraph and the dynamo
8. Which economists does Lenin say laid the foundations of the labour theory of value? Adam Smith and David Ricardo Quesnay and the Physiocrats of France Malthus and Say John Stuart Mill and Stanley Jevons
9. Complete Lenin’s sentence: “The teaching of Marx is all-powerful because…” it is scientific history is on its side the workers believe it it is true
10. What does Lenin call the cornerstone of Marx’s economic theory? The theory of money The doctrine of surplus value The theory of differential rent The law of supply and demand in the market

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