Deck 13: The Materialist: Karl Marx

Question 1

Marx held that labor produces marvels for the wealthy.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Hegel developed absolute idealism.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A thesis is opposed by a synthesis.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Marx said that the point is to change the world.

Question 5

Marx fought a duel.

Question 6

Saint-Simon believed that economic conditions determined history.

Question 7

Marx was born in Russia.

Question 8

Marx wrote the Philosophy of Right .

Question 9

A Hegelian dialectic is a three-step pattern.

Question 10

Hegel was a grand systematizer.

Question 11

Geist means "Mind," or "Spirit."

Question 12

Hegel thought of history as the unfolding of the Absolute Idea of Man.

Question 13

Marx was influenced by Hegel.

Question 14

Marx was a life-long Hegelian.

Question 15

Marx died in England.

Question 16

Marx was expelled from London.

Question 17

Marx was expelled from Paris.

Question 18

Marx was expelled from Germany.

Question 19

Saint-Simon was an economist.

Question 20

Marx said that he was not a Marxist.

Question 21

Engels wrote Das Kapital .

Question 22

How many epochs of history did Marx identify?

A) 2
B) 3
C) 5
D) 7

Question 23

What is the "second epoch" of history for Marx?

A) communal
B) slave
C) capitalist
D) communist

Question 24

What is the final epoch of history, for Marx?

A) slave
B) communist
C) communal
D) capitalist

Question 25

Who denies the possibility of free will?

A) Marxists
B) Kantians
C) Compatibilists
D) Hard determinists

Question 26

According to Marx, what is the process of human history shaped by?

A) social forces alone
B) ideas
C) economic forces alone
D) social and economic forces together

Question 27

Marx believed that there was only one uniform reality.

Question 28

Feuerbach believed that reality was immaterial.

Question 29

The middle class are the proletariat.

Question 30

Marx confined Hegel's dialectic to

A) the nineteenth century
B) the West
C) economics
D) the material world

Question 31

Engels held that the state is abolished.

Question 32

Who owns the means of production, for Marx?

A) feudalists
B) proletariat
C) bourgeoisie
D) utilitarians

Question 33

Marx believed that reality was material.

Question 34

Marx applied Hegel's concept of the dialectical process to history.

Question 35

What does most philosophy lack, according to Marx?

A) rigor
B) God
C) substance
D) metaphysics

Question 36

The proletariat own the means of production.

Question 37

A Hegelian dialectical process is an evolutionary cycle.

Question 38

Engels supported Marx's arguments with facts.

Question 39

What was Hegel's great error, according to Marx?

A) capitalism
B) theism
C) abstraction
D) localism

Question 40

The use of cloudy abstractions to create metaphysical systems that distract us from material reality is known as

A) postmodernism
B) structuralism
C) deontology
D) mystification

Question 41

The concentration of wealth and growth of great corporations tends to occur in

A) communism
B) capitalism
C) feudalism
D) socialism

Question 42

If history is governed by social and economic forces and not by ideas, why do you think Marx was so intellectually engaged? Explain your answer fully.

Question 43

The feeling of not being "at one" with the product of one's labor is called

A) disassociation
B) co-option
C) alienation
D) dissemblement

Question 44

Who cannot love, according to Erich Fromm?

A) Workers
B) The proletariat
C) Capitalists
D) Automatons

Question 45

Marx derived the term "alienation" from

A) Spinoza
B) Hegel
C) Mill
D) Engels

Question 46

What relationship of production did Marx criticize most?

A) Feudalism
B) Proletariat
C) Capitalism
D) Communism

Question 47

Under capitalism, according to Marx, what do we believe provides our means of life?

A) Nature
B) Money
C) Toil
D) Work

Question 48

A full human life is

A) a worker-life
B) an agnostic-life
C) a species-life
D) a hedonic-life

Question 49

Marx referred to the capital accumulated by owners as

A) social capital
B) social value
C) stolen wages
D) surplus value

Question 50

How might Mill agree with Marx's criticisms of nineteenth century social conditions? Explain your answer, supporting it by referring directly to both Marx and Mill. Do you agree with these criticisms? Do you think that they are applicable to society today?

Question 51

Who wrote of eudaimonia ?

A) Mill
B) Rawls
C) Bentham
D) Aristotle

Question 52

What is not part of the superstructure of society, according to Marx?

A) Educational systems
B) Philosophies
C) Religious beliefs
D) Means of production

Question 53

What are Marx's criticisms of capitalism? Do you believe that they are (a) factually accurate and (b) legitimate? Explain and justify your answers.

Question 54

Like Mill, Marx referred to what he did as

A) social engineering
B) social science
C) utilitarianism
D) maximization

Question 55

In what ways was Marx influenced by Hegel? In what ways did his thinking depart from that of Hegel?

Question 56

Who, according to Marx, profits the most in a capitalist society?

A) Those who are most inventive
B) Those who contribute the most
C) Those who work the most
D) Those who contribute the least

Question 57

How is Marx's criticism of capitalism linked to both (a) Kantian accounts of the moral community and (b) Aristotle's account of the good human life? Explain your answer fully.

Question 58

In Marxist terminology, a person who is convinced to further interests that are to his ultimate disadvantage has been

A) co-opted
B) co-operated
C) duped
D) dissociated

Question 59

What is not a "means of production," for Marx?

A) Knowledge
B) Coal
C) Water
D) Land

Question 60

What is not a "force of production," for Marx?

A) Skill
B) Equipment
C) Factories
D) Coal

Question 61

What is "dialectical materialism"? What are the historical stages that Marx identified? Do you believe that his identification of these stages was correct, or not? Explain your answer.

Question 62

Do you agree with Marx's claims concerning "alienation" and "surplus value"? If yes, what do you think is the most powerful criticism of them, and why do you think that that criticism is mistaken? If not, why not?

Question 63

In what way is Marx's view of history a deterministic view? Explain your answer. Does this mean that people are not masters of how their society is organized? What would Marx's response be? Do you agree?