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TEST SERIES 2017
TEST 2: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT(II)

ALL QUESTIONS ARE COMPULSORY

MAX MARKS: 120 MAX TIME: 1.5 hours

1) Why is Karl Marx regarded as the founder of scientific socialism?

Would you describe him as evolutionary or revolutionary socialist?

2) "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they
please; they do not make it under self selected circumstances, but
circumstances existing already, giving and transmitted from the
past."-Karl Marx. Critically Examine.

3) Gramsci was an innovative and wide ranging thinker whose

interpretations of Marxism helped rescue it from determinism and
economic reduction-ism. Critically examine the above statement.

4) "The intellectuals are the dominant groups, 'deputies' exercising the

subaltern function on social hegemony and political government."-
Gramsci. Explain.

5) "Action, as distinguished from fabrication is never possible in

isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act"-
Hannah Arendt. Explain with reference to Arendt's theory of Political.

6) "Dialectics is nothing more than the science of general laws of

motion and development of nature, human society and thought."-
Engels in Anti-Duhring. Critically evaluate the laws of dialectical
materialsim.

7) "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make
up their minds to be good or evil."-Hannah Arendt. Comment.

8) Hegemony does mean something more specific than power and

domination. Elaborate.

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