Political Theory
This theorist distinguished between the “base” and “superstructure.”
Who is Karl Marx?
The Mau Mau uprising occurred in this British colony.
What is Kenya?
This North African theologian wrote City of God.
Who is Augustine of Hippo?
This organization, founded in 1905, sought to organize all workers into “One Big Union.”
What is the Industrial Workers of the World?
This country has the world’s highest average elevation.
What is Bhutan?
This prison theorist described the role of “organic intellectuals” in maintaining hegemony.
Who is Antonio Gramsci?
Amílcar Cabral led the liberation struggle in these two Portuguese colonies.
What are Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde?
This dualist religion founded by Mani spread from the Roman Empire to China before largely disappearing.
What is Manichaeism?
This 1892 strike at Andrew Carnegie’s steel plant ended after a violent battle involving Pinkertons.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This exclave on the Baltic Sea is separated from the rest of Russia and bordered by Poland and Lithuania.
What is Kaliningrad?
This philosopher argued sovereignty is defined by the power to determine the “state of exception.”
Who is Carl Schmitt?
This Marxist-led government came to power in Afghanistan after the 1978 Saur Revolution.
What is the the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA)?
This Islamic legal reasoning method relies on analogical deduction.
What is qiyas?
The Flint Sit-Down Strike targeted this automobile company.
What is General Motors?
The Caprivi Strip was historically created to give this colonial power access to the Zambezi River.
What is the German Empire?
This Marxist geographer wrote The Condition of Postmodernity and theorized “spatial fixes” for capitalism.
Who is David Harvey?
Thomas Sankara renamed Upper Volta to this.
What is Burkina Faso?
The Filioque controversy helped contribute to this 1054 split.
What is the East–West Schism?
This labor organizer and socialist ran for U.S. president five times and was imprisoned for opposing World War I.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
This African country contains the world’s largest non-artificial harbor.
What is Madagascar?
This theorist of biopolitics wrote Society Must Be Defended and argued modern states “make live and let die.”
Who is Michel Foucault?
This Indonesian mass killing campaign of 1965–66 targeted alleged communists and followed an attempted coup blamed on the PKI.
What are the Indonesian anti-communist purges?
This Jewish mystical tradition includes concepts such as the sefirot and Ein Sof.
What is Kabbalah?
This legal doctrine, established after the 1938 Mackay Radio decision, allows employers to permanently replace economic strikers.
What is the Mackay Doctrine?
Mount Roraima sits at the tripoint of these three countries.
What are Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana?