Philosophical Foundations
Mode of Production
Base, Superstructure
CONTRADICTION & REVOLUTION
THE FIVE FORMATIONS
100
This is the view that ideas and consciousness drive historical change (rulers' decisions, religious inspiration, philosophers' ideas).
Idealism
100
**The two elements that combine to form a mode of production.**
Relations of Production/Production Relations
and
Forces of Productions/Productive Forces
100
The dominant ideas of any epoch are shaped by who?
The dominant class
100
What is the more dynamic side of the mode of production, which always changing and improving.
Productive Forces / Forces of Production
100
Society with no classes, no surplus, communal ownership
Primitive communalism
200
Before consciousness their must be _____________.
Survival
200
**Which mode of production preceeded the one pictured below.**
Slavery/Slave-Mode of Production
200
In the base-superstructure formation the superstructure does what to the base?
Maintains
200
When forces outgrow the old relations / the contradiction becomes irreconcilable / and a class organizes to carry out their will, what becomes possible?
Revolution
200
**In all eras and epochs, man has certain means of production, these are made up of which two parts?**
Objects of labor
Means/Implements of labor
300
The one-sentence law: people's social being determines their ______________.
Social consciousness
300
This term covers who owns the means of production, who works, who appropriates the product, and how labour's fruits are distributed.
Relations of Production
300
The most essential economic relation in the base is what?
Ownership of the means of production.
300
**If a general or ruler is overthrown by another general, but relations of production stay largely unchanged, this would most likely be called what?**
A coup / coup d`etat
300
Under which socioeconomic formation do the class stop being antagonistic and begin to work together?
Socialism
400
What is the name of the science of studying how societies actually work and why they change?
Historical Materialism
400
The bourgeoisie as class began to act independently under which mode of production?
Feudalism
400
Culture, education and religious ideas are all part of the ___________.
Superstructure
400
What country would have published this poster?
Soviet Union / USSR / CCCP
400
**Under capitalism the proletariat must sell what to survive?**
Their Labor Power
500
**Supernatural explanations regarding human life could best be categorized as what kind of philosophical trend?**
Idealism / Idealist
500
Socialism is only the lower stage, or first step, towards what?
Communism
500
The superstructure can be changed by what?
Social Revolution / Revolution in the base / Revolution
500
The feudal landlords of France and England ultimately lost in their struggle against who?
The capitalists / bourgeoisie
500
Most socioeconomic formations have had a _______________ to manage the conflicts and relations between classes
State