Quiz 2

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

True

Marx defined surplus value as

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

For Marx, alienated labor can take on five different forms.

false

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

wage laborers

Whose theory is Marx inverting when he states "Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life"?

Georg W.F. Hegel

What term does Marx use to refer to when the process of production and the results of our labor confront us as a dominating power?

alienation

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

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

class struggle

Marx states the capitalist class will produce its own "grave-diggers". For Marx, who are these "diggers"?

class-conscious proletariat

Marx argues that fetishizing commodities

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

Marx believed that alienated labor dehumanized the laborer and contributed to their exploitation.

true

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

true