Global Politcs QUIZ 2

Which of the following most closely resembles Marx's definition of class?

Class is determined by ownership of capital, which can be mixed with labor to form a commodity that is profitably sold.

According to many structuralists, which of the following is not one of the outcomes of the global financial crisis?

The resurgence of labor unions in industrial democracies

The process by which inherently unstable opposing economic forces and counterforces lead to crisis, revolution, and to the next stage of history is called

a dialectical process.

Structuralists (Marxists, neo-Marxists, etc.) tend to view free market globalization as

a new epoch of history.

Marx believed in a theory called historical materialism. In this theory, capitalism:

arose out of feudalism in order to overcome feudalism.

After the financial crisis of 2007, structuralists recommended:

substantial government regulation of both the global and national economies.

Which of the following is NOT one of Marx's Laws of Capitalism?

the law of capitalist imperialism

Which one of the following refers to the privately-owned assets used to produce the commodities in an economy?

the means of production

The basic idea behind structuralism is that

the structure of the international political economy—namely capitalism—conditions its outcome.

Ideological manipulation or "cultural hegemony" occurs when

workers believe in the legitimacy of the capitalist system.