Karl Marx and the Birth of Communism

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels encouraged workers to improve their lives by

• electing union representatives

• participating in local government

• overthrowing the capitalist system

• demanding pensions and disability

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In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels expressed the idea that

• religion should be the most important factor in society

• power should be determined by a person’s wealth

• profits from work should belong to the workers

• supply and demand should control prices

What societal problem did Karl Marx attempt to address in his manifesto? Choose the best answer.

• The exploitation (taking advantage) of the poor by the rich

• The low quality of good produced at large factories.

• The fact that poor people were not allowed to vote.

• Unfair laws that allow poor people to be sent to prison

According to Marx, workers would take control of governments through:

• Non-violent protest
• Democratic reforms
• Violent revolution
• Trickery

Karl Marx predicted that laissez-faire capitalism would result in

• a return to manorialism

• a revolution led by the proletariat

• fewer government regulations

• an equal distribution of wealth and income

A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

• Communism

• Free enterprise system

• Karl Marx

• Law of competition

An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state (government).

• Adam Smith

• Bourgeoisie

• Capital

• Capitalism

A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

• Laissez-faire
• Law of supply and demand
• Proletariat
• Socialism

Workers or working class people.

• Laissez-faire
• Law of supply and demand
• Proletariat
• Socialism