________________ an atheistic and materialistic worldview based on the ideas of Karl Marx that promotes the abolition of private property, public ownership of the means of production (i.e., socialism), and the utopian dream of a future communistic state

_________: the Marxist ideal of a classless and stateless utopian society in which all property is commonly owned and each person is paid according to his or her abilities and needs.

_____________: an economic system in which capital assets are privately owned, and the prices, production, and distribution of goods and services are determined by competition within a free market

Marxism is the philosophy of Karl Marx. A Marxist is someone who embraces this philosophy. “Socialism” is the word Marx used to describe the ideal state achieved when his views are put into practice, so a communist is a person who applies Marx’s ideas to the government and the economy. 

________: an economic system based upon governmental or communal ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods and services

On February 21, 1848, Marx published _________________ with the assistance of Frederick Engels

What country is not communist today?

Historians now estimate, only as a starting point, anywhere from 20 to 60 million deaths in the Soviet Union, 40 to 70 million in China, two million in Cambodia (then called the Khmer Rouge), 1.6 million in North Korea, and 1.2 million in Yugoslavia. And the slaughter continues to this day. Since 1971, China’s one-child policy has led to 336 million abortions, many being performed against the will of the parents.

Marxism and oppression go together like “peanut” and “butter.”

The world’s five communist countries account for approximately one of every five people on the planet and they are_____________________________________________________________________________

______________: the practice of federal governments taking ownership and management control of private businesses

The idea behind state communism is inherently socialistic, in spite of the use of the word “capitalism.”

Instead of achieving its stated goal of destroying class distinctions, socialism tends to remove competition and deposit cronyism in its place.

At any major university you’ll find some professors overtly evangelistic about Marxism and many others sympathetic to Marx’s aims.

What is not one of the two central doctrines of the Marxist Worldview uses to makes sense of everything else in the world

To understand Marxism you need to grasp two ideas: (1) everything is about economics and, (2) history is a struggle in which the move toward a state of communism is inevitable.

_____________: the belief that only the material world exists and that class struggles are the mechanism behind social and economic progress.

____________: the belief that economics determines the entire course of human history, ultimately and inevitability leading to a communist future.

___________ in philosophy does not mean coveting luxury goods. Materialism says that only the world of matter exists. There is nothing outside of nature. No God or gods exist. To Marxists, materialism and atheism are non-negotiable. 

_________: a term used in Marxist theory to describe those who own the means of production

________: a term used in Marxist theory to describe the working-class wage earners who do not own the means of production

Socialism inevitably becomes communism, according to Marxists

Marxism prides itself on being a thinking person’s worldview.

Marx loved Darwin’s ______________ because it dealt a “death-blow . . . to ‘teleology [design in nature].’”

As Marx studied Darwin’s work, he became convinced that evolution could explain human progress as well as the survival of the fittest in nature.

In Marxism, evolution wasn’t just biological. It was Psychological.

Marxists are forced to embrace spontaneous generation

____________ the idea of life arising from non-living matter.

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) dealt the death blow to spontaneous generation, and Engels was convinced

Marxists put their faith in the evolution of society through economic conflict.

Since the time of The Communist Manifesto, communists have formed various schools of intellectual thought (such as the Frankfurt School of Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse), terrorist groups (such as the Red Brigade), and even interest groups (such as the Communist Party USA and International ANSWER).

__________: the belief that the working class is becoming increasingly aware of their position in society and their oppression by the bourgeoisie

_________: the belief that whatever advances the proletariat and communism is morally good and whatever hinders the proletariat and communism is morally evil

According to Marxists: Humans are really nothing more than matter in motion, but they are always evolving and hopefully growing in their class consciousness, their awareness of their oppressed state. This, in turn, will motivate a new ethic, a proletariat morality, to justify whatever actions Marxists take to overthrow our existing social conditions.

__________ see the human problem as someone else’s problem—property owners are devilish, and the property-less workers are saintly.

If you hear someone use the expression “freedom of worship” in place of “freedom of religion” in referring to the U.S. Constitution, you should be very suspicious.

Karl Marx would probably consider Christianity the most ___________ of the Six Worldviews mentioned in this class

Some Christians sympathetic to the plight of the poor regularly scour Scripture to find evidence justifying Marxism.

Marxism’s denial of any transcendent reality would draw protests from New Spiritualists, and Marxism’s brutal way of pursuing its aims is seen by New Spiritualists as a manifestation of negative energy and ego.

Hegel, the philosopher whose “dialectic” approach is so fundamental to Marxist thinking, wrote frequently of the _________

Muslims see their economic approach as a middle way between capitalism and ____________.

To Muslims, economic justice requires economic well-being for all believers.

To Marxist, Islam is just as bad as Christianity.

Postmodernists came out of the Marxist tradition.

Postmodernism is as Post-Marxist as it is Post-Everything-Else