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100

He thinks there is an ever-flowing current of human affairs toward the worse

Who is John Stuart Mill?

100

This place is mentioned by Marx and Engels in the first sentence of The Communist Manifesto

What is 'Europe'?


“A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectreof communism”

100

The three degrees of sociability in Proudhon are 1) sociability, 2) ____________, and 3) social proportionality.

What is justice?

100

This theorist was born in present-day Switzerland

Who was Constant?

100

JS Mill's dad was a follower of this utilitarian philosopher

Who is Jeremy Bentham?

200

Constant says it involves active and constant participation in political power

What is ancient liberty?

200

Proletarians have nothing to lose by their chains, but what do they have to win?

What is ‘a world’. [“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”]

200

Kropotkin says that the failure of capitalism is continuous ______________.

What is ‘underproduction’?

200

This theorist was notoriously bad with money

Who was Marx?

200

Constant blames two thinkers for the terror, de Mably and _________

Who is Rousseau?

300

Tocqueville's worry that base self-interest will lead people to welcome a tyrant

What is democratic despotism (or soft despotism)?

300

In a perfect political state man "acts as a private individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means, and becomes the plaything of ____________.

What are 'alien powers'?

300

If humans had talent & knowledge but no reason, Proudhon says they’d be like these creatures

What are bees?

300

This theorist had a crisis in his mental history

Who was Mill?

300

Wrote “The Ability of Present-Day Jews and Christians to Become Free”

Who is Bruno Bauer?

400

Mill saw two kinds of competence, Moral and _____________.

What is 'Instrumental'?

400

In Marxist jargon, exploitation involves the extraction of ________ value

What is surplus?

400

In explaining property, Proudhon makes much of the translation of this word

What is ‘robber’?

400

This theorist was also a geographer

Who was Kropotkin?

400

Our travelling magistrate's buddy

Who is Gustave de Beaumont?

500

The kind of interest that would seek class legislation

What is a sinister interest?

500

Capitalism increases exploitation and increases class divisions as part of its _____________ dialectic

What are gravediggers

500

What Whitechapel criminal does Kropotkin invoke to show that police do not keep us safe?

Who is Jack the Ripper?

500

This theorist punched a fellow parliamentarian in the face

Who was Proudhon?

500

He believes 'the Owl of Minerva only flies at dusk'

Who is Hegel?