1. The first May Day demonstrations by labor and socialist organizations were scheduled for May 1,1890 to c. call for demonstrations throughout the world demanding legislation for an eight-hour day and workers’ rights. 2. The inspiration for the first May Day demonstrations came from c. the May 1, 1886 U.S. demonstrations by workers which resulted in the Haymarket Massacre. 3. Karl Marx, looking at the...
This Marxist IQ celebrates Earth Day and the struggle to put people and nature before profits.
1. While anti-Marxists accused Marx of being uninterested in environmental questions, Marx a. saw capitalism as alienating people from nature. b. saw the interaction of labor with the natural environment as the basis of wealth and civilization. c. saw capitalist technology in agriculture turning the forces of production into forces of destruction of the land. d. All of the above 2. In the 19th century, the...
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