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| is a form of socialism which advocates the violent overthrow of existing governments with the goal of changing society and ultimately perfecting mankind. It always results in a totalitarian dictatorship that demonstrates the person, property, and even thought of its citizen by means of force and terror. |
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| another name for communism, after two of its most infamous theorists |
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| as a student at the University of Berlin, he associated with radical students and professors and came under the spell of religious modernists of Germany who denied the diety of Christ and questioned the authority of the Bible |
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| Marx viewed history as a record between the "haves" (wealthy) and the "have nots" (poor), and he blamed the ownership of private property as the source of conflict. |
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| that nothing but the material world exists and that material conditions alone (the environments and economics) determine how a person thinks, acts, feels, and believes |
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| another name for the middle class |
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| another name for the working class |
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| Marx said, the state will wither away and there will come into being a stateless, classless, perfect condition beyond socialism called ________. |
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| Marx called religion the ______________ because he believed that religion was like a 'drug' that made people content with less in this life because they expect happiness only in the next. |
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| He despised the discipline of his father's home, shared Marx's radical views on atheism, humanism, and materialism |
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| The secular humanism embraced by Marx and Engels became the foundation of ____________. |
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| When the revolution broke out in Germany in _____, they took advantage of the turmoil to issue The Communist Manifesto. |
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| a pamphlet which laid out a program for Communist revolution |
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| Marx helped organize the Internationals Workingmen's Association with representatives from all over Europe |
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| this offered a theorectical foundation for Communist idealogy |
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