worksheet

1. What conflict is at the center of Marx’s interpretation of history? What is different about this conflict in the bourgeois era?

2. What is the “bourgeoisie” and what role has it played in history?

3. What is the “proletariat” and how has industrial capitalism created it?

4. Why do Marx and Engels want to abolish private property?

5. Why do the Communists want to abolish the family?

6. For Marx, how does industrial capitalism undermine nation-states?