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100

This organization, called “the greatest threat to internal security of the country” by the FBI, got its start at Merrit College in 1966.

Black Panther Party

100

These are the three branches of the US Government.

What are Executive, Legislative and Judicial?

100

This Movie about class conflict won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2020.

What is Parasite?

100

This popular leftist Twitch streamer was recently criticized for buying a 2.7 million dollar home in LA.

Who is Hasan Piker (Hasanabi)?

100

In Marxist theory, this class owns property and the means of production.

What is the bourgeoisie?

200

This city saw the establishment of the first Soviet, headed by Leon Trotsky, in 1905.

What is St. Petersburg (or Petrograd)?

200

In Summer of 2020 in Seattle, the acronym CHAZ (or CHOP) stood for this.

What is Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (or Capital Hill Occupied Protest)

200

This hip hop group reached mainstream and critical acclaim with the hit “Fight the Power” off their album “Fear of a Black Planet”

What is Public Enemy?

200

This is the reddit-derived parody name of conservative non-profit Turning Point USA.

What is Toilet Paper USA?

200

This is a synonym for centralized economy.

What is planned economy?

300

This toxic herbicide and defoliant chemical is infamous for its widespread use by the United States Military in the so called Vietnam war(the Vietnamese call it the resistance war against America). Estimates say that around 4 million Vietnamese people have been exposed to this chemical, which is known to cause many health issues.

What is agent orange

300

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bernard Arnault, and Mark Zuckerberg are the only 5 people in the world whose personal wealth exceeds this obscene round number.

What is 100 Billion?

300

Pioneering technical film achievements, this reprehensively racist film was a commercial success, the first film played at the White House, and arguably inspired the rebirth of the KKK.

What is The Birth of a Nation?

300

What’s a synonym for a leech?

landlord

300

Also meaning “new-freedom”, this political ideology promotes free markets, deregulation and a reduction in government spending.

What is Neoliberalism?

400

The SE Asian city, also known as Saigon, was named after this revolutionary and politician.

Who is Ho Chi Minh?

400

This political boundary separated the communist and non-communist European countries during the 20th century and was named after a fire safety mechanism used in theaters.

What is the Iron curtain?

400

This controversial text, first published in 1971, contains “recipes” for fighting against facist, authoritarian and capitalist threats.

What is The Anarchist Cookbook?

400

Which celebrity recently read the communist manifesto and rejected it to instead support “radical decentralized ubi” achieved through crypto and gaming?

Grimes


400

This widely misunderstood framework for analyzing white supremacy & institutional racism in the US comes from a historical materialist origin.

What is Critical Race Theory?

500

This 5 day period in 1921 saw some 10,000 armed  coal miners confront 3,000 lawmen and strikebreakers who were backed by coal mine operators during the miners' attempt to unionize the southwestern West Virginia coalfields. By the end of the battle approximately one million rounds were fired and the United States Military was deployed to stop the miners resistance. 

What is the Battle of Blair Mountain

500

This man helped transform a slave rebellion into the Hatian Revolution, of which he became the main leader.

Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?

500

This 2007 book written by Naomi Klein argues that unpopular free market policies are implemented in the aftermath of major disasters as the result of rushed, unscrutinized responses to the disaster.

What is the Shock Doctrine?

500

What kind of anti-homeless architecture is there in socialist societies???

Homes - Houses, apartments, etc.

500

This 19th century German philosopher developed dialectics. Marx built off of this philosophy to create dialectical materialism, which is a framework of analyzing class conflict through opposing interests.

What is Hegel>