Whenever appropriate support your answers with one or more quotes from the texts assigned.

1) Define historical materialism.

1) Why do Marx and Engels write in the Manifesto that the bourgeoisie historically has played the most revolutionary part?

2) How do Marx and Engels describe the successive class antagonisms in Western history?

3) How has the bourgeoisie asserted its domination?

4) What do Marx and Engels think of the liberal struggles for political rights ?

5) What is driving political change?

6) Through what stages of development does the proletariat go?

7) Describe the Communists according to Marx and Engels.

8) How do Marx and Engels describe capital?

9) How do Marx and Engels describe the status of the family in capitalist society?

10) What does this sentence mean, "the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class?"

11) What is the political program of the Communists?

12) What is wrong with "bourgeois socialism" and "utopian socialism" ? (See course packet. )