Ideas Quiz #2

Marx: The owners of the means of production: the

Bourgeoisie

"Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering."

Dostoevsky

"Oh, we shall allow them even sin, they are weak and helpless, and they will love us like children because we allow them to sin."

Dostoevsky

"They are little children rioting and barring out the teacher at school."

Dostoevsky

"They will marvel at us and look on us as gods, because we are ready to endure the freedom which they have found so dreadful and to rule over them- so awful it will seem to them to be free."

Dostoevsky

"our primary and imperative practical task [is] to establish an organisation of revolutionaries capable of lending energy, stability, and continuity to the political struggle...."

Dostoevsky

The country who suffered more deaths in battle than any other in World War I, more than two million (2,000,000):

Germany

Western press reports on Lenin's Russia were generally

Glowing

"For as this 'ought' (or 'ought not') expresses some new relation or affirmation, it needs to be pointed out and explained...."

Hume

"In every system of morality I have met with I have noticed that the author ... suddenly surprises me by moving from propositions with the usual copula 'is' (or 'is not') to ones that are connected by 'ought' (or 'ought not')."

Hume

"a reason should be given for how this new relation ['ought'] can be—inconceivably! —a deduction from others that are entirely different from it."

Hume

"And we must see to it, not only that the masses "advance" concrete demands, but that the masses of the workers "advance" an increasing number of such professional revolutionaries."

Lenin

"To concentrate all secret functions in the hands of as small a number of professional revolutionaries as possible does not mean that the latter will "do the thinking for all" and that the rank and file will not take an active part in the movement."

Lenin

"such an organisation must consist chiefly of people professionally engaged in revolutionary activity."

Lenin

The Cheka:

Lenin's secret police

"...in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."

Marx

"As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce."

Marx

"It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us. According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work."

Marx

"Men can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion or anything else you like. They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of subsistence...."

Marx

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat."

Marx

"The existence of revolutionary ideas in a particular period presupposes the existence of a revolutionary class."

Marx

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Marx

"What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed?"

Marx

"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths."

Marx

"Everything, however, became what it is. There are no eternal facts. There are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche

"It is this Chance that makes us indifferent."

Remarque

"They surpassed us only in phrases and in cleverness. The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces."

Remarque

"While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger."

Remarque

"no one had the vaguest idea what we were in for."

Remarque

The country that lost the greatest percentage of its citizens in World War I—16%, or close to one in six.

Serbia

"The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word."—Friedrich Steinbrecher, German Officer

Somme

Marx's theory of justice: From each according to his ____, to each according to his ____.

abilities; needs

Aristotle: The function of a human being is to

act according to rational plans

Marx: The whole history of the world is a history of

class struggle

In the manifest image, we see ourselves as

free rational agents

Lenin differed from Marx by believing in

free will

Nietzsche: our theories of the world change

in irrational, unpredictable ways

Rosa Luxemburg's objection to Lenin's use of vanguard fighters:

it would produce a military ultracentralism

Doyle's vision is tragic in that Sherlock Holmes has to

make tradeoffs among competing goods, sacrificing one thing to get another

Dostoevsky: the vision of the anointed inevitably leads to

narcissism

Paul Johnson: Einstein's observations on relativity were analogous to the effects of Correct!

perspective in art

Einstein's theory of relativity does NOT support relativism, because

the laws of physics are invariant across inertial frames

An absolute quantity in Einstein's special theory of relativity:

the speed of light