HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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survival of the fittest and natural selection
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class struggle and revolutionary change
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separation of powers and checks and balances
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monotheism and religious tolerance
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Detailed explanation-1: -His key theories were a critique of capitalism and its shortcomings. Marx thought that the capitalistic system would inevitably destroy itself. The oppressed workers would become alienated and ultimately overthrow the owners to take control of the means of production themselves, ushering in a classless society.
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: -Karl Marx was a social thinker who believed in the principle of socialism. He argued that the industrialists and capitalists who own the factors of production earn profits because of the hard work put in by workers. The capitalists pocket the profits and do not share it among workers.
Detailed explanation-4: -Karl Marx could be considered the intellectual and philosophical leader of the Russian Revolution. Although he had died long before the revolution it was his ideas (along with Friedrich Engels) that sparked the political movements to overthrow the capitalist and autocratic government that was in place in 1917.