economic thinkers today. Marx and Marxism have been/are being
painted black universally.
Shall we have a look at his usage of the words such as'ideas'
'actions', 'marriage', 'birth' and 'death' ?
Go through the following quiz. We may, or we may not, agree
with what Marx said, but we do not err by having a look.
I have shortened the sentences for easy reading and
comprehension. Errors will be my own and not those of Marx.
QUESTION BOX:
1. Marx, German Ideology (1845)
The ideas of the ruling class are in every ___( epoch, country,
economic system) the ruling ideas. ANSWER
2. Every new ruling class has to give its ideas, the form of
____ (enforceability/nationality/universality) and represent
them as the only rational, universally valid ones. ANSWER
3. A ___(philosopher/politician/teacher) produces ideas, a poet
poems, a clergyman sermons, a professor compendia. ANSWER
4. Whatever the frightened ____ (people/bourgeois/bureaucrats)
say, we are able to calculate the moment when we shall have the
majority of the people behind us; our ideas are making headway
everywhere. ANSWER
5. ____ (Rulers/Men's/Women's) ideas are the most direct
emanations of their material state. ANSWER
6. The conflicts of _____ (few/innumerable/subdued) individual
wills and individual actions in the domain of history produce a
state of affairs entirely analogous to that prevailing in the
realm of unconscious nature. ANSWER
7. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep
his ___ (ears / eyes / mouth) shut and his checkbook open.
REM:Compare this with Lincoln's saying that marriage is
purgatory. ANSWER
8. Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by
the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets ___
(gold / inheritance / prestige) as its Holy Grail. ANSWER
9. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in
society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does
not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe,
whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the ____
(demand / price / respect ) for labor. ANSWER
REM:90% of the world's population, we can call proletariat;
the people may work as agricultural laborers, industrial
laborers, software engineers, hotel receptionists, or xxxx. The
basic principle is they rarely get share of profts. Bonus is
only a deferred wage..
10. Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the
laborer, unless under compulsion from ____ (Government / society
/ trade unions ). ANSWER
