- Which statements about Karl Marx are true? (Choose one or more.)
A He was born in Trier in Prussia on 5 May 1818.
B He graduated from Jena University in 1841.
C He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843.
D During the university years he was influenced by the Hegelian left.
E In 1842 he became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, a liberal newspaper of Cologne that was soon closed by the Prussian authorities.
F He emigrated to Paris, where he met Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), his great friend and lifetime collaborator.
G In 1845 he was expelled from Paris and moved to Brussels, whence he was expelled in 1848.
H In 1848 he published the Communist Party Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.
I In 1848-49 he published Neue Rheinische Zeitung: Organ der Demokratie in Cologne.
J In 1849 he moved to London, where he spent the rest of his life.
K Between 1852 and 1861 he was the London correspondent for the New York Daily Tribune.
L He died in London on 14 March 1883.
- Identify those ideas that Karl Marx defended? (Choose one or more.)
A the materialist conception of history (historical materialism)
B a theory of alienation, and, later, “commodity fetishism”
C the labor theory of value
D the theory of surplus value and the rate of exploitation
E the tendency of the rate of profits to fall
F the immiseration of the proletariat (the “law of increasing misery”)
G the increasing concentration of capital (the “law of capitalistic concentration”)
H the inherent contradictions of capital accumulation
I the theory of working-class revolution
J the dictatorship of the proletariat
K a theory of the state
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