Economic Theory
What is the Proletariat?
A class that consist of people who own no means of production, and have to sell their labour power for a wage.
(Half points for 'the working class')
What is the biggest driving force in the history of human civilisation?
Class and Class Antogonisms
1917
In what year was the Soviet Union Dissolved?
1991
Which Communist experiment took power in 1871?
The Paris Commune
A Slogan for distribution under communism is - From each according to their (1)______, to each according to their (2) ________.
(1): Ability. (2) Needs
Half points for (1):Ability. (2): Work
What is Democratic Centralism?
The principle that to decide matters, there should be lively debate and a vote, but after the vote everyone has to follow the majority policy.
Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks from their founding until 1924?
Vladimir Lenin
Which side of the Chinese Civil War lost in 1949 and fled to Taiwan?
The Nationalists, also known as the Kuomintang or the Republic of China.
Who co-authored The Communist Manifesto?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
(Half points for one correct answer)
What are the five main stages of human society?
Primitive Communism, Slavery, Feudalism, Capitalism, Communism
What is the Dictatorship of the Proletariat?
Who was the head of the second international when it turned revisionist and supported the first world war?
Karl Kautsky
Who was the first person to go to space?
Yuri Gagarin
Which country did Leon Trotsky die in?
Mexico
What is the Reserve Army of Labour?
A group of people who are kept unemployed so that they can be used to lower wages by increasing competition for jobs.
What is the most important part of the right of nations to self determination?
What was the name of the Soviet secret police from 1917-1922?
Cheka
(Double points for Chrezvychainaia Komissiia or 'Extraordinary Commission')
Which congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union contained Khrushchev's secret speech where he denounced Joseph Stalin?
The 20th Congress of the CPSU
What is the name of the current president of Cuba as of 2024?
Miguel Diaz-Canel
What are the 3 types of value and what are the differences between them?
Value: The base value of a product, determined by the socially necessary labour time to produce the product.
Exchange Value: The value at which a commodity is exchanged.
Use Value: What the product can be used for, and how valuable it is to a person based on their current needs.
Who said "There is only one conclusion: that without self-criticism there can be no proper education of the Party, the class, and the masses"?
(Double points for naming the article it is from)
Joseph Stalin
(From 'against vulgarising the slogan of self-criticism')
Whose assassination in December 1934 led to the Moscow trials?
Sergei Kirov
After the Sino-Soviet split, which socialist country split with China and was not allied with China, the USSR or the Non-Aligned movement?
The People's Socialist Republic of Albania
(Albania would also be accepted)
In which country did Karl Marx spend the majority of his life living in?
UK/England/Great Britain