Quiz: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

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

1. 1. What are the three sources of Marxism according to Lenin?

   German philosophy, English political economy, French socialism French philosophy, German political economy and English socialism Hegel’s dialectics, Feuerbach’s materialism and Darwin’s evolution Greek philosophy, Roman law and the ethics of the Christian Gospels
2. 2. What could utopian socialism not do, according to Lenin?

   Criticise capitalist society or condemn its injustices Imagine a better social order to replace capitalism Find the social force able to create a new society Win any followers
3. 3. Complete Lenin’s sentence: “The teaching of Marx is all-powerful because…”

   history is on its side it is scientific it is true the workers believe it
4. 4. What does Lenin call the cornerstone of Marx’s economic theory?

   The law of supply and demand in the market The theory of money The theory of differential rent The doctrine of surplus value
5. 5. How does Lenin say bourgeois science regards Marxism?

   As a kind of “pernicious sect” As an outdated German philosophy As a respectable rival school As a branch of liberalism