The Life of Marx
This significant event in Marx's life happened in 1818
What year was Marx born?
This is another world for capitalists in Marx's time.
What is the bourgeoisie?
This is the term for a phenomenon where workers give a commodity or product magical qualities.
What is fetishism of commodities?
This is an example of centralization of communication and transportation in the hands of the U.S. government.
What is the FCC/FAA/Amtrak/U.S. postal service?
What was the focus on Marx's PhD?
This happened in 1848.
What year was the Communist Manifesto published?
This type of surplus value is created by extending the work day.
What is absolute surplus value?
This group has has much wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion people in the world.
Who are the 26 richest people?
This lifelong relationship began in Paris
Where did Marx meet his collaborator Friedrich Engels?
This is how Marx and Engels described the workers' exploitation in factories powered by machinery.
What is an appendage of the machine?
This type of surplus value is created by increasing labor productivity through time-saving procedures.
What is relative surplus value?
This is one example of how the U.S. government influences rights of inheritance.
What are estate taxes?
London
Where did Marx spend most of his adult life.
Marx and Engels provided this in the Communist Manifesto rather than a detailed blueprint of a communist society.
What is the 10-point plan?
This is a way of expressing equivalencies - how much of one commodity it takes to equal the value of another.
What is exchange value?
This is what governments can invoke to seize private property for their own use
What is eminent domain (also war on drugs, RICO statutes)