1.
What
was Marx’s main moral objection to capitalism?
2.
Describe
Marx’s concept of alienation.
3.
What
is a commodity?
4.
What
is meant by the “labour theory of value”?
5.
What
is “surplus value”?
6.
What
is meant by “capital accumulation”?
7.
What
is meant by “primitive accumulation”?
8.
How
did Marx’s views of primitive accumulation differ from those of the defenders
of capitalism?
9.
According
to Marx, why do capitalists have to keep re-investing?
10.
What
is meant by the term “industrial reserve army”?
11.
What
are its functions according to Marx?
12.
What
is the difference between a consumer good and a producer good?
13.
Give
an example of a consumer good and a producer good that is manufactured in
Saskatchewan.
14.
How
do economic downturns affect the consumer and producer sectors of the economy?
15.
Is
there any evidence to support Marx’s view that capitalist economies grow “in
cycles of boom and bust, with periodic high levels of employment”? (p 113)
16.
Marx
stated (p 113) that “an increase in the minimum amount of … capital necessary
to carry on a business under its normal
conditions”? What is meant by
this? Can you give examples of types of
business where this is true, and types of business where it is not true?
17.
Quotation
at the top of page 114 - explain what this means in plain English.
18.
What
is meant by “the state”? How is it
different from “government”?
19.
What
are the functions of the state according to Marx?
20.
Why
did Marx think there would be a socialist revolution?