History
Marxism was created by ____ ____ and ________ _____ in 1848. Either person's first and last name is acceptable!
Who is Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels?
________ is an economic and/or political system in which commerce is personally controlled for profit.
What is capitalism?
Karl Marx is most famous for writing this document.
What is "The Communist Manifesto"?
Gregor and his family would belong to the ____ class of society.
What is the lower class?
A word used to describe people in society by their economic status, such as lower, middle, and upper ____.
What is class?
The Soviet Union was founded and collapsed in this century.
What is the 20th century?
What are the 1900s?
______ is the idea that capitalism will inevitably fail, and it is the founding principle behind communism.
What is Marxism?
Karl Marx was born in this country on May 5, 1818.
What is Germany?
Before Gregor Samsa became a bug, he worked as a _______ ________, being the only person in his family to provide money for the house.
What is a travelling salesman?
Branching off from socialism, _________ is a much more hardline political ideology which focuses on total equality and removing private property.
What is communism?
The Soviet Union's first leader and the Red Army's leader during the Russian Revolution was ________ ____.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
A _______ is a belief or ideal an ideology follows.
What is a doctrine?
In 1885 and 1894, the second and third volumes of ___ ______ were posthumously published.
What is Das Kapital?
Being part of the working class, throughout the story, Gregor begins to lose his ________ and ________.
What is identity and humanity?
_____ is a term often used by Marxists used to describe work, particularly work that is difficult and physical.
What is labor?
The war which concluded with the foundation of the Soviet Union was the ________ __________.
What is the Russian Revolution?
What is the Russian Civil War?
___ ________ is the idea that nobody owns anything. People who believe in this often criticize communism for being misleading and untrue to its principles.
What is true communism?
What is anarcho-communism?
What is theft, or any similar term?
Karl Marx defined modern work as alienated and done to be efficient rather than passionate — an idea that can be seen between ____ ____'s relationship with his ______.
Who is Franz Kafka and his father?
Who is Gregor Samsa and his father?
______ ________ is something owned by the people. _______ ________ is something owned by one individual or group.
What is public and private property.
This country followed a principle known as Maoism after their own revolution, a Marxist inspired ideology based on agriculture rather than industrialization.
What is China?
Marxism had three key related ideas. Name atleast two of the three.
What is philosophical anthropology?
What is a theory of history?
What is an economic and political program?
Karl Marx believed in the idea of ________ ________ (or ______________), the concept that capitalists assumed financial issues ahead of honest relationships.
What is commodity fetishism?
What is Warenfetishmus?
As Gregor was a lower class man, his boss early on in the story had threatened his replacement from his job. This relation can be seen in real life between the ________ and the lower class in communist societies.
What is the bourgeoisie?
A _____ is an authoritative belief and/or established opinion.
What is a dogma?