1. For Marxists and Communists, the general crisis of capitalism can be overcome

a. by reducing taxes on the rich and high tariffs to protect corporate profits and jobs

b. by expanding trade and increasing foreign investments by programs like the North American Free Trade Agreement

c. through the abolition of capitalism and the transition to socialism

d. advancing reforms under capitalism like Medicare for All

2. Communist theorists developed the theoretical concept of a World Revolutionary Process:  Marxists and Communists still see it as valid thirty-five years after the dismemberment of the Soviet Union. The three components of this world revolutionary process were

a. the working class, youth, and oppressed minorities in all countries

b. the working class, minorities, and women in all countries

c.  countries building socialism, the working-class fighting capitalism,  peoples and countries in the Third World.

d. the small capitalists, workers, and farmers of the developed world

3. Lenin saw that imperialism was the product of monopoly capitalism and capitalism’s last stage. He contended that imperialism would produce more and bigger wars which is because

a. imperialist countries needed more markets, raw materials, and investment zones for surplus capital

b. imperialist countries would fight to re-divide existing colonial territories and subdue previously independent states

c. deeper imperialist penetration would lead to greater resistance between colonized peoples and peoples threatened by imperialist domination

d. all of the above

4. Today China is both a developing socialist country and rapidly catching up with the United States as the world’s largest economy. The Chinese revolution has had many complex policy changes since the People’s Republic of China was established in 1949. Which of the following general policies were not advanced by and associated with the Chinese Communist Party?

a. The Great Leap Forward

b. The New Economic Policy

c. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

d. The Development of a Socialist Market Economy with Chinese Characteristics

5. The Trump government is widely seen as fascist by both Marxists and non-Marxists throughout the world because

a. The cult of the leader who is above the law and to whom the people owe absolute obedience.

b. The call to revive a glorious past like Mussolini’s new Roman Empire and Hitler’s Third Reich to make the nation “great again”

c. The attacks on minorities and foreign powers to create a militarized police state

d. All of the above

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