Question

Questions 7 and 8 refer to the quotation below

In 1848, German thinker Karl Marx, along with Frederich Engels, authored a book titled “The Communist Manifesto”, which became one of the most influential pieces of political writing in history. The following is one of the ideas contained within that book:



“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”

― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Question 7 (1 point) Question 7 Saved
The views in this quotation are best seen as evidence of which of the following?

Question 7 options:

Societal harmony between social classes at the time


The widespread use of serfs in Western Europe


The author’s optimistic opinion of capitalism


The desire by some to alter the class system

Question 8 (1 point) Question 8 Saved
The tone of this document best reflects which of the following developments?

Question 8 options:

The rise of National Socialism in Germany


Twentieth century European nationalism


The Industrial Revolution


The Enlightenment

Answer 1

The correct answer for 7 is:
"The desire by some to alter classes" because to introduce a new class system in which each individual has a job to their own abilities was the main aim of communism, not equaliry, at the time of the Manifesto, the opposite of capitalism.
The correct answer for 8 is:
"The rise of National Socialism in Germany"
because socialism and communism go hand in hand and are most similar.