SOC 2

Karl Marx's theory is often called historical materialism, because the theory assumes that ideas, culture, and consciousness are mainly determined by:

the fetishism of commodities (WRONG)

Marx defined surplus value as

difference between what workers earn for their labor and the price or value of the goods they produce

Which of the following group is a "class" in capitalism according to Marx?

wage laborers

According to Marx's theory of Capitalism, exploitation of workers will stop when economy booms and corporations begin to produce enough surplus values.

F

According to The Origin of Family, Private Property and the State, monogamous marriage provided women with the freedom, honor, and respect lacking during the "backward" period of barbarism.

F

In Marx's theory of the commodities (goods that are produced and traded for profit), he discusses two dimensions of their values. The two terms he used are the "use-value" and the "value accumulation."

F

Who is the life time collaborator of Karl Marx and the author of the critical analysis of the family, The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State?

Friedrich Engels

Whose theory is Marx inverting when he states "Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life"? (Hint: Marx took his concept of dialectics but rejected his idealism)

Friedrich Engels (WRONG)

According to Marx's argument, proletariat have no other choice but to enter exploitative economic relationship with bourgeoisie.

T

Marx believed that capitalism was a necessary stage in the transition toward socialism/communism.

T

The superstructure consists of everything non-economic such as legal, political, and educational systems.

T

Marx argued that workers under Capitalism feels estranged from the meaning of work because labor serves solely to provide means (money) for maintaining physical existence. Lacking the creative potential of labor, this condition is called:

alienated labor

Marx used the term class consciousness to refer to

an awareness on the part of the working class of their common relationship to the means of production

Marx refers to the middle-class owners of capital as

bourgeoisie.

Raw materials, machinery for production or even more generally money, in Marx's economic framework, are all considered

capital

For Marx, which of the following is a catalyst for social change and the prime mover of history?

class struggle

Marx argues that fetishizing commodities

leads us to give magical, personally transforming properties to the goods we buy

According to Marx's labor theory of value, the standard on which the value of commodities is based is

the amount of labor time necessary to produce the commodity

Marx's Communist Manifesto states that the capitalist class will produce its own "grave-diggers". For Marx, who are these "diggers" who will bring the demise of the capitalist class?

the bourgeoisie (wrong)

Classes are groups of individuals who share a common position in relation to _____________________. In other words, they either own them or not own them.

the means of production