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100

This former colony in southeast Asia fought a war for national liberation as well as a prolonged north-south civil war.

Vietnam

100

This ideology advocates for permanent revolution; revolutionary movements must aid international revolutions as a precondition for their survival.

Trotskyism

100
What did Marx refer to as the stage between capitalist and communist societies?

DotP (socialism is acceptable)

100

What country lifted 800 million people out of extreme poverty, thus ending extreme poverty?

China

100

Which Soviet leader had the (proportionally) biggest eyebrows?

Leonid Brezhnev

200

This South American country elected a socialist president in 1970 before a CIA backed military coup overthrew the government

Chile

200

This ideology advocates for the mass line and protracted peoples war.

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

200

What determines value in Marxist economics?

Socially necessary labor time

200

Which Latin American country outpaced every other country in the region in life expectancy, declining infant mortality rates, literacy rates etc. upon revolution?

Cuba

200

Which famous anarchist theorist rode a penny-farthing

Peter Kropotkin

300

This was the second socialist republic founded.

Mongolia

300

This early form of anarchism advocates for a state and class free society but preserves a free market of co-ops as well as a democratically organized mutual banks.

Mutualism

300

What kind of currency did many socialists seek to replace money? This is theorized by many anarchists, owenites, and Marxists.

Labor vouchers/notes

300

This anarchist polity, despite material setbacks of low industrialization and economic underdevelopment, crushed a fascist uprising in 1936.

CNT FAI (Catalonia or anarchist Spain are acceptable)

300

What natural body of water did Mao famously swim in at age 72?

Yangtze River

400

This country in southern Africa established socialism after winning independence from Portugal

Mozambique

400

This ideology describes a broad wave of Marxist opposition to Marxism-Leninism. Key thinkers include Anton Pannekoek and Amadeo Bordiga.

Left Communism

400

What did Karl Kautsky perceive as the final phase of imperialism that would be stable, monopolistic and without war?

Super-imperialism/Ultra-imperialism

400

What country achieved the most rapid sustained increase in life expectancy in documented global history?

China (Mao era)

400

What was Che Guevara a doctor of?

Dermatology

500

This anarchist experiment in East Asia was comprised on 2 million Korean refugees following Japanese occupation.

The Korean People's Association in Manchuria

500

This bizarre off-shoot of Trotskyism views nuclear war as the inevitable fate of global class struggle. From the wreckage of which workers could build socialism and eventually communicate with extraterrestrial beings (who likely have established communism) and form socialist solidarity with them. Adherents also believe that since dolphins are very intelligent, it could prove a useful endeavor to attempt to communicate and establish socialist cooperation with them.

Posadism

500

What kind of tight-knit ideological groups do anarchist advocate for? Hint: the FAI is an example of this.

Affinity groups

500

This anarchist society fought off a counterrevolutionary army comprised of monarchists, nationalists, and liberals.

Makhnovschina (anarchist Ukraine or the black army of Ukraine are acceptable)

500

How tall was Fidel Castro?

6'3