Recap: Marxism & Leninism

Marx's definable stages of history:

• Historical materialism

• Dialectical materialism

• Class conflict

• Class consciousness

The build up of class conflict to a point so great that it would force social development through revolution:

• Historical materialism

• Dialectical materialism

• Class consciousness

• Class conflict

Marx & Engels: “The (a)   have nothing to lose but their (b)   . They have a (c)   to win. (d)   OF ALL COUNTRIES, (e)   !”

• proletarians
• chains
• world
• WORKING MEN
• UNITE

The sixth and final stage of historical materialism is a communist utopia. Order the first five stages before that:

• Feudalism

• Capitalism

• Ancient Socieities

• Socialism

• Primitive Communism

Why did Marxism challenge the tsarist autocracy?

• It argued the victory of the proletariat was inevitable

• It believed capitalism was not the final stage of human development

• It argued against history being determined by nature, destiny or God

• It argued for the overthrow of the Russian tsar directly

Why was Russia's political and economic situation an exception to Marxist theory?

• It was too modern for the 'stage' it was at

• It was too backward to ever develop to the next stage

• It was both modern and backward at the same time

• Everyone in Russia was happy and did not want reform

Select the specifically LENINIST belief:

• That all history is the history of class struggle

• When class conflict becomes too great, revolution occurs

• Russia could telescope its revolution & skip its capitalist phase

• Russia needed to modernise immediately so that capitalism could develop

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Vanguard Party

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(b) Dictatorship of the proletariat

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(c) Democratic centralism

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(d) Restricted party membership

• Strict internal hierarchy and discipline within the party

• Limiting membership to full-time and professional revolutionaries

• A party that would lead workers to socialist revolution to develop its class consciousness

• Establishing a socialist workers' state to fairly redistribute wealth