Lesson 3.3.1.3.2

3.3.1.3.2 Socialism: key thinkers Quiz: AQA Politics, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. Which concept did Marx and Engels identify as the main driver of historical conflict?

    • Racial conflict
    • Imperial expansion
    • Class struggle
    • Religious war

  2. Who co-authored The Communist Manifesto alongside Karl Marx in 1848?

    • Friedrich Engels
    • Vladimir Lenin
    • Beatrice Webb
    • Rosa Luxemburg

  3. According to The Communist Manifesto, the history of all existing society is the history of what?

    • Class struggles
    • Religious wars
    • Economic cooperation
    • National rivalries

  4. Which philosopher's dialectical method did Karl Marx adapt to create historical materialism?

    • John Locke
    • Thomas Hobbes
    • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    • Georg Hegel

  5. Which 1899 work by Rosa Luxemburg criticised revisionist claims about gradual reform?

    • The Communist Manifesto
    • The Social Contract
    • Das Kapital
    • Reform or Revolution

  6. How did Rosa Luxemburg believe the working class would initiate revolution?

    • Strict elite direction
    • Parliamentary legislation
    • Military coup d'état
    • Spontaneous mass action

  7. What did Rosa Luxemburg argue tight central party control would stifle?

    • Class consciousness
    • Spontaneous worker action
    • Parliamentary reform
    • Capitalist free markets

  8. Beatrice Webb was a leading figure in which socialist organisation?

    • Fabian Society
    • Chartist movement
    • Communist Party
    • Socialist International

  9. What structure did Beatrice Webb advocate to run a co-operative commonwealth?

    • Totalitarian dictatorship
    • Workers' soviets
    • Federal co-operatives
    • Free markets

  10. In which year was Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism published?

    • 1979
    • 1968
    • 1945
    • 1956

  11. Which core goal did Anthony Crosland prioritise as the primary value of socialism?

    • Economic deregulation
    • Dictatorship of proletariat
    • Total state control
    • Social equality

  12. Which thinker is most associated with revisionist social democracy in post-war Britain?

    • Rosa Luxemburg
    • Karl Marx
    • Beatrice Webb
    • Anthony Crosland

  13. What central economic feature of traditional socialism did Anthony Giddens reject?

    • Social justice
    • Equal opportunity
    • Democratic elections
    • State ownership

  14. Anthony Giddens's Third Way combines market-friendly economics with which type of policy?

    • Free-market deregulation
    • Total state planning
    • Left-wing social policy
    • Revolutionary Marxism

  15. According to Karl Marx in Capital, where does capitalist profit originate?

    • Consumer demand
    • Market competition
    • Bank interest
    • Surplus value

  16. Which work by Beatrice and Sidney Webb examined the organisation of trade unions?

    • The Third Way
    • Das Kapital
    • Industrial Democracy
    • The Mass Strike

  17. Which socialist thinker argued that co-operative individualism should shape socialism?

    • Beatrice Webb
    • Rosa Luxemburg
    • Karl Marx
    • Anthony Crosland

  18. Which work by Rosa Luxemburg analysed the spontaneous political power of mass strikes?

    • Future of Socialism
    • The Mass Strike
    • The Communist Manifesto
    • Industrial Democracy

  19. What did Karl Marx call the transitional state phase controlled by the working class?

    • Absolute monarchy
    • Dictatorship of proletariat
    • Liberal democracy
    • Anarchist commune

  20. In Marxist theory, what term describes workers feeling estranged from their own labour?

    • Alienation
    • Hegemony
    • Revisionism
    • Gradualism

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