Part: You will hear a short extract about Karl Marx.

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THAN THREE WORDS for each blank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMmDebW_OBI

 Karl Marx is regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of 19 th century. Marx believed that
capitalism had serious flaws.
 He claimed that capitalists had the ideology that work is good, leisure is bad, embracing mass
production, depriving workers of _____________________________________ and exploiting
the working class.
 He became involved in the _____________________________________ - a small group of
intellectuals wanting to abolish ____________________________and spread wealth equally.
 He wanted a society where wealth is distributed evenly, property is
___________________________ and education is free.
 After his death, his ideas flourished. Communism became a global movement, yet the
_____________________________________ of a fair and equal society failed to materialize.
 Communism _____________________________________ its subjects, slaughtered them in tens
of millions.
 Nowadays, capitalism is dominant. The _____________________________________ between
the rich and the poor is startling.
 He predicted that capitalism leads to the rich getting richer and the poor staying poor;
capitalism would lead to _____________________________________ economics and
globalization.
 However, he underestimated the ability of capitalism to make everybody richer and reform itself
by creating _____________________________________.
 Although there is a lot to learn from Marx, his solution was bad. Yet it can’t be said that
capitalism, dominated by _____________________________________ and financial crisis has
triumphed.

KEY
1. Job satisfaction
2. Communist league
3. (The) class system
4. Owned publicly
5. Utopian ideal
6. Tyrannized and impoverished
 Tyrannise: to treat someone cruelly, controlling everything that they do
7. Global disparity
 Disparity: a lack of equality or similarity
8. Boom and bust
9. Welfare states
10. Immense inequality