1. Marxists today see imperialism as

c. resulting in deepening and multiple crises of poverty, racist oppression, environmental destruction, and proxy wars.

2. In his analysis of imperialism, which he called “ultra-imperialism,” Karl Kautsky disagreed with V. I. Lenin in that he

c. believed that imperialist powers could cooperate to divide the world short of war and revolution.

3. In his pamphlet Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin presented modern imperialism as a result of

a. the merger of industrial and bank capital to create finance or monopoly capital.
b. the export of capital itself to less developed countries, as opposed to just the export of goods, for the purpose of increasing profits.
c. the formation of international monopolies and rival alliances of nations to divide and redivide the world, leading to war and revolution.
d. All of the above

4. Applying his theory of imperialism to Czarist Russia in 1917, Lenin saw

c. Russia as the weak link among the imperialist powers fighting the war, whose democratic revolution would have to be transformed rapidly into a socialist revolution if it were to survive.

5. Which of the following was not among Lenin’s theoretical contributions to Marxism and do not form part of the foundation of Marxism-Leninism?

e. The establishment of the world’s first socialist state as the model for all socialist countries that had to be supported in all of its domestic policies and foreign policies

Your score:
0 wrong: Theoretician. Write an article! Teach a class!!
1 wrong: Developed Marxist. Form a study group, join the party.
2 to 3 wrong: Developing Marxist. Keep studying and stay in the struggle!
4 to 5 wrong: Danger! deviations possible. Study and then study some more lest you drift into the marsh of opportunism!