Crash Course: Capitalism & Socialism
- What innovation of mercantile capitalism was used to finance
major expeditions and spread risk?
- What is Joyce Appleby’s definition of industrial
capitalism?
- Where and when did it develop first?
- Lower food prices allowed people to purchase _____ goods
with their excess wealth.
- How did the increased efficiency in farming help keep
factories humming along?
- Describe the process of enclosure
- In what ways was capitalism a “change of mind?”
- Capitalist culture promotes the idea that mean and women are
_______ in addition to producers, and further
argued that this was a good thing because it spurred growth.
- List three problems with industrial capitalism
- Socialism is an”imperfect opposite” to capitalism because capitalism’s
defenders see it as ______ and socialism is a system developed by human
_________.
- Why did Utopian socialists reject the ideas of revolution?
- What feature about Karl Marx does John Green appreciate,
which was not present on other, more mass-murdering communists like Mao,
Stalin, and Pol-Pot?
- What is the name of Karl Marx’s greatest work?
- What were the two classes that mattered?
- What did Marx think gave life meaning?
- According to John Green, has socialism succeeded in
supplanting capitalism?
- Why does John Green think Marx still matters?
