Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to http://www.sociologyonline.co.uk/ and click on “Quizzes.” Under the category of “Introductory Quizzes,” click on “On Marx” and answer the following questions:

[Hint: if you need help, click on the “Show Answer” button.]

1. What did Marx say was the motive force of history?



2. What is alienation?



3. What is the superstructure?



4. What is proletarianization?

Exercise 2

Go to http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Marx/COMMMAN.HTML. Here you will find an excerpt from Marx’s Communist Manifesto. After reading the excerpt, answer the following questions:

1. How does Marx characterize the entirety of history?



2. [Read the fifth paragraph.] What is the distinctive feature of the epoch of the bourgeoisie?



3. [Read the third paragraph.] What were the classes of ancient Rome and feudal Europe?



4. [Read the last paragraph of the document.] Marx argues that the bourgeoisie produces its own “grave-diggers.” What does this mean?