Chapter Five. “No power greater – the working class”
1. What is the “working class”? Is it anyone that works?
2. What gives wage workers more potential power than slaves or peasants?
3. What did Marx learn from the Paris Commune of 1871?
4. Why do socialists support unions? Are unions enough to fight for socialism?
5. How can workers who today accept life under capitalism come to challenge it?
Chapter Six. “Democracy, Reform, and Revolution
1. We learn in school that the state balances between competing interests. What is the role of the state under capitalism?
2. How democratic is democracy under capitalism?
3. The left calls the Democratic Party the “graveyard of social movements.” What does this mean?
4. Can elections bring socialism?
5. What is the difference between a coup and a revolution?
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