Karl Marx quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What did Marx see as the motor of history?

   Answer: Class struggle

   Why: Engels later added a note limiting the claim to written history, since prehistoric societies were barely known in 1847.

2. 2 Medium

   What does Das Kapital say workers sell to employers?

   Answer: Their labour power

   Why: Engels's 1891 edition of Wage Labour and Capital changed labour to labour power to match Marx's later view.

3. 3 Hard

   To whom did Marx dedicate the first volume of Das Kapital?

   Answer: Wilhelm Wolff

   Why: Darwin did receive a copy from Marx, the 1873 second edition, which is still in his library at Down House.

4. 4 Easy

   What did the Manifesto say workers have nothing to lose but?

   Answer: Their chains

   Why: The same closing passage says communist aims can be reached only by forcibly overthrowing the existing order.

5. 5 Medium

   How did Marx title his reply to Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty?

   Answer: The Poverty of Philosophy

   Why: Marx wrote it in French as Misère de la philosophie, flipping Proudhon's Philosophie de la misère.

6. 6 Hard

   What branch of maths did Marx try to rebuild from first principles?

   Answer: Calculus

   Why: His maths notes were first published in full only in 1968, 85 years after his death.