Introduction to the Basic Principles of Marxism (2) Review Materials and Answers
1. Multiple Choice Questions
1. (1 point) The labor of producing commodities is divided into concrete labor and abstract labor, and the role of concrete labor is ().
A. Create new value
B. Creation of surplus value
C. Create necessary value
D. Create use value
Answer D
2. (1 point) The reason why money can perform the function of value measure is because of ().
A. It measures the value of other commodities
B. It is a product of social labor and has value in itself
C. It has a unit of measurement
D. It can be conceptual currency
Answer B
3. (1 point) Capital is a kind of movement, and capital circulation is from ().
A. Studying the movement of capital in terms of its forms and conditions
B. Study the movement of capital in terms of the speed of capital movement
C. Study the movement of capital in terms of the realization conditions of capital movement
D. The Contradictory Aspects of Capital Movement Studying the movement of capital
Answer A
4. (1 point) The reason why the capitalist economic crisis is cyclical is ().
A. Fundamental contradictions of capitalism
B. Features of the Movement of Fundamental Contradictions of Capitalism
C. The periodicity of the basic contradictions of capitalism
D. The Periodicity of Capitalist Reproduction
Answer B
5. (1 point) The basis for dividing industrial capital into monetary capital, productive capital, and commodity capital is the various parts of capital ().
A. Different roles in the process of value proliferation
B. Different ways of value turnover
C. Different forms of matter exist
D. Different functions in the cycle
Answer D
6. (1 point) The state function that most clearly reflects the essence of a capitalist state is ().
A. Political functions
B. Economic functions
C. Social functions
D. External engagement function
Answer A
7. (1 point) The emergence and development of state monopoly capitalism is fundamentally ().
A. Consequences of domestic market competition
B. Consequences of intensified international competition
C. Consequences of strengthened monopoly rule
D. Consequences of the development of contradictions between the socialization of production and capitalist private ownership
Answer B
8. (1 point) Among the basic economic characteristics of monopoly capitalism, the most fundamental characteristic is ().
A. Formation of national monopoly alliances
B. Capital Exports Are Important
C. Monopolies dominate economic life
D. Carve up world territories and form a colonial system
Answer C
9. (1 point) The financial oligarchy in a monopoly capitalist country mainly relies on ().
A. "Agency"
B. "Personal Association"
C. "Syndication"
D. "Participation"
Answer D
10. (1 point) The realistic basis of the development trend of economic globalization is ().
A. New technological revolution
B. Internationalization of production
C. Highly developed international trade
D. The rapid development of international finance
Answer C
11. (1 point) State monopoly capitalism has prepared material conditions for the transition to socialism means ().
A. Comprehensive socialization
B. Full commercialization
C. Comprehensive marketization
D. Planning of the market
Answer A
12. (1 point) The fundamental task of socialism is ().
A. Waging class struggle
B. Reforming ownership of means of production
C. Carry out political system reform and economic system reform
D. Liberate and develop productivity
Answer D
13. (1 point) The unevenness of economic and political development is an absolute law of capitalism, from which it follows that socialism may first triumph in a few or even in a single capitalist country. This well-known assertion was made by ( ).
A. Marx
B. Engels
C. Lenin
D. Stalin
Answer C
14. (1 point) The theoretical basis for the establishment of scientific socialism is ().
A. The Doctrine of Utopian Socialism
B. German Classical Philosophy
C. Historical materialism and the theory of surplus value
D. British Classical Political Economy
Answer C
15. (1 point) "In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, there will be a union in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all". This is()
A. A passage from the Communist Manifesto
B. A passage from The Principles of Communism
C. A passage from the Critique of the Gotha Program
D. A passage from Capital
Answer A
16. (1 point) "Two sure" and "Two never" ().
A. is contradictory
B. are two different things
C. is intrinsically linked
D. is the relationship between content and form
Answer C
17. (1 point) Countries with relatively backward economy and culture can enter socialism before capitalist countries, and the fundamental reason is because of ().
A. Countries with relatively backward economy and culture have higher spiritual civilization
B. Determined by the objective situation and conditions of the revolution
C. It takes highly socialized capitalist mass production as the material premise of the socialist revolution
D. Socialist production relations can be bred and grown within the old society
Answer B
18. (1 point) On the issue of the relationship between human development and social development, Marxism believes that ().
A. The former is an individual ideal, while the latter is a social goal
B. The former embodies personal value, while the latter embodies social value
C. The former and the latter are independent historical development processes
D. The former and the latter are the premise and foundation of each other
Answer D
19. (1 point) The essence of primitive accumulation of capital is ().
A. Capitalists rely on their own hard work to get rich and set up capitalist enterprises
B. Laborers voluntarily leave the land to work in cities and accumulate for capitalists
C. Capitalists use economic means to induce farmers to leave the land and become wage laborers
D. To separate workers from the means of production by violent means, and to concentrate a large amount of wealth in the hands of capitalists
Answer D
20. (1 point) The improvement of the organic composition of capital means that in the proportion of constant capital and variable capital ().
A. An increase in the share of constant capital
B. An increase in the share of variable capital
C. Constant capital and variable capital expand in the same proportion
D. Constant capital and variable capital fall in the same proportion
Answer A
21. (1 point) The reason why capitalist wages cover up exploitation is because it ().
A. Expressed as the value or price of labor
B. is the value or price of labor
C. It is the value created by the laborers' necessary labor
D. is a manifestation of the value or price of labor
Answer A
22. (1 point) There is a contradiction between formal equality and factual inequality in the democratic system of capitalist countries. The fundamental reason lies in ().
A. The constitution was made by the bourgeoisie
B. The principles of democracy are disconnected from practice
C. Working people cannot participate in the management of state power
D. The realization of democratic rights is limited by private ownership
Answer D
23. (1 point) The residual value is converted into profit because the residual value is regarded as ().
A. Increase in expended variable capital
B. Increase in constant capital advanced
C. Increase in total capital advanced
D. Increase in total capital expended
Answer C
24. (1 point) The core issue of social reproduction is the realization of total social products, including ().
A. Material compensation and moral compensation
B. Compensation in value and compensation in kind
C. Tangible and intangible compensation
D. Commodity Compensation and Monetary Compensation
Answer B
25. (1 point) After capitalism enters the monopoly stage, the relationship between monopoly and competition is ().
A. A monopoly eliminates competition
B. Monopoly overrides competition and coexists with it
C. Competition trumps monopoly
D. A monopoly moderates competition
Answer B
26. (1 point) The dominant capital export during the period of monopoly capitalism is ().
A. Merchandise Capital Export and Loan Capital Export
B. Export of commodity capital and export of productive capital
C. Loaned Capital Exports and Produced Capital Exports
D. Export of productive capital and export of commodity capital
Answer C
27. (1 point) The 6 million parts of the American Boeing 747 are provided by more than 1,200 companies in the United States and 6 other countries. This is ().
A. The performance of commodity internationalization
B. Manifestations of globalization of production
C. Manifestations of trade globalization
D. The performance of capital globalization
Answer B
28. (1 point) After World War II, in order to prevent social conflicts caused by distribution polarization and maintain social stability, developed capitalist countries ().
A. Establish and implement a unified social welfare system for the whole society
B. Establish and implement a unified lifetime employment system for the whole society
C. Establish and implement a unified minimum living security system for the whole society
D. Establish and implement a unified employee stock ownership system for the whole society
Answer A
29. (1 point) The highest form of capital socialization is ().
A. Monopoly capitalism
B. State monopoly capitalism
C. Socialization of production
D. Socialization of business management
Answer B
30. (1 point) Utopian socialism "provides extremely valuable materials to inspire workers' consciousness", but it does not have ().
A. Scientific character
B. The power of practice
C. The meaning of reality
D. Scientific and practical character
Answer D
31. (1 point) The essence of socialist democracy is ().
A. The people are the masters of the country
B. Democracy for the Majority
C. Equality before the law
D. Has incomparable advantages over capitalist democracy
Answer A
32. (1 point) The scientific vision of the future society by the classic Marxist writers has pointed out to us ().
A. The way forward for building a harmonious socialist society
B. Socialism will inevitably defeat capitalism
C. Socialism has strong vitality
D. What is socialism and how to build socialism
Answer A
33. (1 point) Marxism believes that the key to eliminating the "three major differences" lies in ().
A. Eliminate the distinction between industry and agriculture
B. Eliminate the difference between urban and rural areas
C. Eliminate the distinction between mental and physical labor
D. Elimination of interest differences
Answer D
34. (1 point) Which of the following statements is correct ().
A. The development of scientific socialism theory and practice is smooth sailing
B. The development of scientific socialism theory and practice has not been smooth sailing
C. The theory and practice of scientific socialism have had no significant impact in history
D. The theory and practice of scientific socialism do not reflect the general laws of the development of the world socialist movement
Answer B
35. (1 point) The state-owned system of contemporary capitalism mainly exists in ().
A. Among knowledge economy industries
B. Among highly monopolized industries
C. Infrastructure and utilities sector
D. Among the giant corporations that dominate contemporary capitalist economic life
Answer C
36. (1 point) The actual controller of large enterprises in developed countries after World War II is ().
A. major shareholder
B. capitalist
C. Senior Professional Manager
D. middle class
Answer C
37. (1 point) The monopoly bourgeoisie implements reform policies ().
A. Reduced exploitation of workers and other workers
B. Fundamental access to capitalist ownership of the means of production
C. Does not change the status of the exploited wage earners of the working class
D. Changed the antagonism between the interests of the bourgeoisie and the working class
Answer C
38. (1 point) State monopoly capitalism is ().
A. Capitalism Combining the Capitalist State with Private Monopoly Capital
B. Capitalism in which capitalist countries hold all private monopoly capital
C. Capitalism in which capitalist countries control all social monopoly capital
D. Monopoly capitalism in which capitalist countries nationalize all capital through investment
Answer A
39. (1 point) A small number of capitalists and large enterprises unite to control the production and sales of products in one or several departments ().
A. United
B. Mergers
C. Acquisition
D. Monopoly
Answer D
40. (1 point) The economic crisis of capitalism is essentially ().
A. The crisis of underproduction
B. The crisis of absolute overproduction
C. The crisis of relative overproduction
D. The crisis of disjointed buying and selling
Answer C
2. Multiple Choice Questions
1. (2 points) In the commodity economy, the relationship among value, price, supply and demand is ().
A. Price is affected by value and changes with changes in supply and demand
B. Price is determined by value, reflects value and reflects supply and demand
C. Price is determined by value, influenced by and constrained by supply and demand
D. The price is determined by the value, which is affected by the relationship between supply and demand and restricts the relationship between supply and demand
Answer A,B,C,D
2. (2 points) The characteristics of the capitalist labor process compared with other labor processes are ().
A. Create new use value
B. Create new value
C. Workers work under the supervision of capitalists, and their labor belongs to capitalists
D. The product of labor is owned by the capitalist
Answer C, D
3. (2 points) The basic theoretical premise of Marx's analysis of the reproduction of total social capital is ().
A. The value of the total social product is composed of c+v+m
B. The problem of realizing the total social product is value compensation and material replacement
C. Social production is divided into two categories: means of production and means of production and consumption
D. An increase in the organic composition of capital
Answer A, C
4. (2 points) Monopoly profits come from ().
A. Surplus value of workers in the firm
B. Profits of Non-Monopoly Firms
C. Overseas profits from exploitation and plunder
D. Redistribution of state power
Answer A, B, C
5. (2 points) The U.S. "Apollo" moon landing program invested 30 billion U.S. dollars. More than 20,000 companies and more than 400,000 personnel from more than 120 universities participated in the "Apollo" program. This example shows that contemporary capitalism ( ).
A. Scientific and technological research has become highly socialized
B. Production relations are constantly being adjusted for the socialization of production
C. The adjustment of production relations has adapted to the requirements of the socialization of production
D. Adjustment of production relations within the limits allowed by the capitalist system
Answer A, B, D
6. (2 points) The historical inevitability of capitalism being replaced by socialism is shown in ().
A. The inherent contradictions of capitalism determine that capitalism must be replaced by socialism
B. Capital accumulation promotes capitalism and ultimately negates capitalism itself
C. State Monopoly Capitalism Prepares the Conditions for the Transition to Socialism
D. The adjustment of capitalist production relations has promoted the development of productive forces
Answer A, B, C
7. (2 points) What are the several leaps in the history of socialist development?
A. In the middle of the 19th century, socialism developed from utopian to scientific
B. At the beginning of the 20th century, the practice of socialism from theoretical development to institutional establishment
C. The development of socialism from the practice of one country to the practice of many countries
D. Forces for social progress
Answer A, B, C
8. (2 points) The main features of socialism are ().
A. Implement the economy of ownership by the whole people and the cooperative economy of collective ownership
B. There is commodity production and commodity exchange
C. Has highly developed productivity and higher labor productivity than capitalism
D. Establishment of the power of the working class and working people and their democratic institutions
Answer A,B,C,D
9. (2 points) Among the following options, there are () that belong to the meaning of communism.
A. Communism is a scientific theory
B. Communism is a real movement
C. Communism is a social system
D. Communism is a social ideal
Answer A,B,C,D
10. (2 points) The new strategic concepts of scientific socialism in the contemporary world mainly include ().
A. Peace and development have replaced war and revolution as the two themes of the contemporary world
B. The realization of socialism in the world is a long-term gradual process
C. The fundamental task of a socialist country is to vigorously develop productive forces
D. Socialist countries must properly handle their relations with capitalist countries
Answer A,B,C,D
3. True or False Questions
1. (2 points) Commodity economy is an economic form that implements equivalent exchange through commodity-currency relations, and its basic law is the law of surplus value ( )
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2. (2 points) The key to a correct understanding of the relationship between value creation and wealth production is to use the duality of labor theory of Marx ( )
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3. (2 points) Capitalist land rent is transformed from excess profits ( )
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4. (2 points) The root of the capitalist economic crisis lies in the contradiction of excessive production exceeding the needs of the working people ( )
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5. (2 points) The core of bourgeois ideology is political thought and legal thought ( )
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6. (2 points) The main form of contemporary capitalist international monopoly organizations is multinational corporations ( )
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7. (2 points) Financial capital is formed by the fusion or mixed growth of industrial capital and commercial capital ( )
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8. (2 points) The development of state monopoly capitalism has eliminated the foundation of private monopoly capitalism ( )
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9. (2 points) The essence of economic globalization determines that its development must be beneficial to all countries in the world ( )
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10. (2 points) The historical status of capitalism shows that capitalism is "transitional capitalism" ( )
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11. (2 points) The intervention of state monopoly capitalism in the economy has fundamentally resolved the class contradictions in monopoly capitalist countries ( )
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12. (2 points) The fundamental purpose of socialism is to "eliminate exploitation, eliminate polarization, and ultimately achieve common prosperity" ( )
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13. (2 points) The symbol of the realization of socialism from utopian to scientific development is the publication of the "Communist Manifesto" ( )
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14. (2 points) The reason why scientific socialism can surpass utopian socialism is because the struggle for socialism is based on a scientific ideological system. ( )
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15. (2 points) "Discovering the new world by criticizing the old world" is the method of Marxism to predict the future society ( )
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16. (2 points) "Human dependency relationship" is the relationship between people in capitalist society ( )
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17. (2 points) "Necessary Kingdom" and "Freedom Kingdom" are material concepts ( )
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18. (2 points) The conditions for the emergence and existence of a commodity economy are social division of labor and production materials and products belonging to different owners ( )
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19. (2 points) The first one who clearly stated that "socialism is the lower stage of communism" is: Marx ( )
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20. (2 points) "The development of capitalism is extremely uneven in various countries, and it can only be so under the production of commodities." From this it is an inevitable conclusion: Socialism cannot be achieved in all countries at the same time. victory ( )
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