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Green River Community College Auburn, WA |
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____________ american gov’t. fall quarter 05 ___________ |
Test Review For Thursday, May 19, 2005
Note:
The test would cover all
aspects of Karl Marx, and some portion of Marxism-Leninism that have been
covered in class. I would also ask few questions on James Madison, Jean
Jacques Rousseau. The test is schedule for Thursday, May 19, 2005.
Karl Marx contributions and
efforts socialism, his views on capital, alienation, freedom, social
relations of production, capitalism, proletariats, bourgeoisie, exploitation,
theory on labor value, surplus value theory, dialectics of change, material
determinism, material conception of history; material forces of production;
Marx stand on history, Hegelianism, Superstructure and structure false
consciousness and class consciousness, Karl Marx’s “communist manifesto,”
what it meant to him, his “Das Kapital” –its implications, Marx idea
of revolution and dictatorship of the majority (proletariats), trade unionism and trade union
mentality, Marx relations with Engel,
Marx thought about the Industrial Revolution and feudalism, classless
society, labor, wages, production and
distribution, etc.
What is Marxism-Leninism? What
was his argument about Imperialism, revolution, superprofit, capital,
bourgeoisies, proletariats, immiseration (misery) of the proletariat, trade
union and revolutionary mentality, etc? Why were the reasons why he felt
obliged to revise most of the theories of Karl Marx, thus making him a
revisionist of Marxism? Who was the Russia Philosopher Georgi Plekhanov and
why is he important in the study of Marxism-Leninism? Why did Lenin believe
that revolution wouldn’t first happen in industrialized countries? Others
are (few questions): James Madison and his
participation in the birth of the United States, his role in the
Constitutional Conference, Constitutional government, popular sovereignty,
factions; John Locke on Natural Rights, Thomas Jefferson and the “Declaration
of Independence” in America, his role in the “bill of Rights” and the
differences that exist between Madison and Jefferson, etc., Others would be
Thomas Hobbes, Jean Jacques Rousseau
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