1. The City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration for dismantling an important history exhibit at Independence Park Museum, documenting when Philadelphia was the national capital during George Washington’s presidency. The exhibit

a. showed the president’s house and the adjoining quarters where Washington kept his slaves, along with a discussion of the history of slavery.

2. Abel Meeropol, who wrote the classic anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit,” performed by Billie Holiday, was

a. A New York City High School teacher and union activist.

b. A Communist activist who wrote on major questions of U.S. history and society under the name of Lewis Allen.

c. The man who adopted Michael and Robert Rosenberg, who today bear his name; they are the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, communists executed after their political show trial in 1953.

d. All of the above.

3. Marxists and Communists see racism as

c. an integral part of the capitalist political and economic system, used to distract and divide the working class.

4. Racist policies provide capitalists with “extra profits” by

a. paying Black and Brown workers less, which also depresses general wage rates.

5. Three of the most prominent African-American leaders of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Martin Luther King Jr., all

a. fought for peace based on economic and social justice.

b. saw the liberation of the African American people as part of a larger struggle for the liberation of all people.

c. were formally listed at one time or another by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as Communists and subject to official harassment and abuse under that pretext.

d. all of the above.

6. The guiding principle that Marxists and Communists have advanced in both the Communist party and the larger working-class movement was and is that

b. it is the responsibility of white workers to fight racism in the ranks of the working class, and of Communists to uphold that struggle.

Your score:
0 wrong: Theoretician. Write an article! Teach a class!!
1 wrong: Developed Marxist. Form a study group, join the party.
2 to 3 wrong: Developing Marxist. Keep studying and stay in the struggle!
4 to 5 wrong: Danger! deviations possible. study and then study some more lest you drift into the marsh of opportunism!