USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

THE RED SCARE OF THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Followers of Karl Marx support this system in which the community owns all property and shares all wealth. Requires a VIOLENT overthrow of the established political order.
A
socialism
B
communism
C
capitalism
D
Leninism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Communism is an economic ideology that advocates for a classless society in which all property and wealth are communally-owned, instead of by individuals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marxism posits that the struggle between social classes-specifically between the bourgeoisie, or capitalists, and the proletariat, or workers-defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will lead inevitably to a communist revolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -Marx condemned capitalism as a system that alienates the masses. His reasoning was as follows: although workers produce things for the market, market forces, not workers, control things. People are required to work for capitalists who have full control over the means of production and maintain power in the workplace.

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Detailed explanation-5: -In 1848, Marx and fellow German thinker Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto, ” which introduced their concept of socialism as a natural result of the conflicts inherent in the capitalist system.

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