In the following quotes, from a list of multiple answers, select who you think from whom and from which book did the following quotes originate from.
Question 1:
“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent.”
A) Marx - Kapital
B) Lenin - What is to be Done?
C) Mao - Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan
D) Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
Question 2:
“The supersession of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution. The abolition of the proletarian state, i.e., of the state in general, is impossible except through the process of “withering away”. "
A) Marx & Engels - The Communist Manifesto
B) Lenin - The State and Revolution
C) Stalin - The Foundations of Leninism
D) Mao - On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship
Question 3:
“A person who really takes pain to cultivate himself and to be a faithful pupil of the founders of Marxism-Leninism will lay special stress on maintaining the Marxist-Leninist stand and using the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint and method to solve the problems arising in the revolutionary movement lead by the proletariat, as the founders of Marxism-Leninism did. He will give no thought whatsoever to his own position or fame in the Party, nor will he ever claim to be a Marx or a Lenin, nor require nor expect others to have the same high respect for him as for Marx or Lenin, for he does not think he has any right to do so. Yet such a person will enjoy the considered respect and support of the mass of the Party members just because he acts in this way, because he is always honest and loyal, brave and firm, and shows great ability in the revolutionary struggle.”
A) Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
B) Olgin - Why Communism? Plain Talks on Vital Problems
C) Stalin - The Foundations of Leninism
D) Liu - How to Be a Good Communist
Question 4:
“A committee from 42 organisations of starving Petrograd and Moscow workers is complaining about your inefficiency. I demand the maximum effort on your part, an end to a formal attitude to the work and the utmost assistance to the starving workers. In the event of failure, I shall be compelled to arrest the entire staff of your institutions and have them prosecuted. I have given urgent orders to increase the number of locomotives and trucks. You should immediately load the available two trains of 30 trucks each. Telegraph fulfilment.”
“You are obliged to receive grain from the peasants day and night. If it is confirmed that you have not been accepting grain after 4 p.m. and compelling the peasants to wait until the morning, you will be shot.”
A) Stalin
B) Trotsky
C) Lenin
D) Dzerzhinsky
Question 5:
“Take it aisy”
A) Marx
B) Mao
C) American rock band “The Eagles”
D) Engels
If you’re done and you are interested in doing a bit more, please fill out the following “confessions” questionnaire I shamelessly stole from this page that Marx filled out
Questions:
The Quality you like best
In man
In Woman
Your chief characteristic
Your favourite occupation
The vice you hate most
The vice you excuse most
Your idea of happiness
Your idea of misery
Your aversion
Your hero
Your heroine
The poet you like best
The prose writer you like best
Your favourite flower
Your favourite dish
Your Maxim
Your motto
Your favourite colour
Your favourite Colour of eyes & hair
Your favourite Names
The character in history you most dislike
answer key
Read more theory
okay its
1D
2B
3D
4C
5D
This is a test of memory not of theory. I could place those quotes without understanding them in the slightest.
It’s a cute and fun exercise but it’s also important not to place much value in knowledge of leftist trivia.
Okay so I haven’t read any of these and I was able to get a perfect score. It’s less about having read theory and more about recognizing voice.
who the fuck is scraeming "read theory"at my house
spoiler
- D
- B
- Not sure but going with A because Mao do be talking in paragraphs.
- No idea, A?
- C
I will not fill out the questionaire. Marx should have known this was a phishing attempt. Someone was trying to guess his password. Marx did not account for good opsec.
7·14 days agoTheory? that sounds like it’s for nerds. It’s also old.
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4/5 not bad
Same. I’ll admit, I bungled 3.
Okay I didn’t do that well here, need to read more haha
But I have a sincere question to Hexbearers, especially those who have read a lot of theory, if you could help out a bit.
Do you think it would be better for me to read the same books everyone else around me reads, or should I focus on something that I think is important, but I don’t see brought up often?
I figured it would be better if I specialized in things that I have an easier time with and find support to collaborate with, that would cover the areas where I lack in, but I could be wrong. So please do correct me where am I wrong.
somehow i read the title and thought you’d be posting these questions on twitter (aka X) and there was gonna be a poll involved and fuck me I gotta do something about my dyslexia
Looking at all the questions like
Im not doing tests during Guadalupe-Reyes nerd
Q1: D
Q2: A
Q3: guessing A
Q4: guessing C
Q5: don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. Guessing C
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multiple choice
D, B, A, A, C
My guesses:
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D.
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B
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A??? Except it doesn’t sound exactly like his writing style so actually I’m going to go with D. Because of context and the title. Yep, D is my final answer.
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C??? Sounds like him??? Otherwise B. No I’m going to say C. Final answer C.
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C because what does this even mean.
Woof, take away the “Communist” in my name, I do not feel worthy of the title, clearly I’m not well read enough.
Confessions:
Quality I like best in man or woman: Principled.
Chief characteristic: lovingly ferocious.
Favorite Occupation: When the Soviets occupied Berlin.
Vice I hate the most: nerd-dom/geekdom about [current pop culture media franchise dreck of the moment, it was marvel movies but the zeitgeist has moved on]
Vice I excuse the most: using hard drugs
Idea of happiness: being a little sparrow sitting in a pine tree cheeping and peeping with my buddies
Idea of misery: Most of my most loved ones are irreparably broken and tend to maul me because they won’t/can’t do therapy and I have to live with it because I can’t fix them ok I’m done with this questionairre, it’s too sad.
Do we have answers?
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