Communist Manifesto Study Guide

1. This history of all societies is the history of struggles between what?

• religions
• countries
• classes
• races

2. According to Marx, the class struggle in his day was primarily between what two classes?

• aristocracy and proletariat
• proletariat and the clergy
• bourgeoisie and aristocracy
• bourgeoisie and proletariat

3. The modern state is committed to managing the affairs of what class?

• proletariat
• clergy
• bourgeoisie
• aristocracy

4. What socioeconomic system proceeded bourgeois capitalism?

• anarchism
• feudalism
• socialism
• communism

5. The bourgeoisie are committed to what kind of trade policy?

• free trade between all nations
• free trade between politically allied nations
• free trade only within national boundaries
• free trade only between members of the same social class

6. Capitalism necessarily suffers from crises of what?

• labor shortages
• overproduction
• underproduction
• trade embargoes from other countries

7. What new class has capitalism brought into existence?

• proletariat
• burgesses
• warriors
• aristocracy

8. The development of the bourgeoisie does what to the development of the proletariat?

• regresses it
• does not effect it
• advances it
• stops it

9. The use of division of labor and machinery has done what to the industrial worker?

• enhanced his working experience
• it has no effect
• decreased the demand for industrial workers
• removed the individual character and charm from his working experience

10. As capitalism develops, what happens to the vast majority of the lower middle classes who are neither bourgeois nor proletariat?

• they become capitalist
• they maintain their separate existence
• they become proletariat
• they immigrate to other countries