QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS
1. Explain why increasing social discontent among certain groups may be due to improvement in their social and economic condition. (Skelton, page 17.)
2. What, according to socialists, has been the effect upon the workers of the introduction of machinery into industry? (Le Rossignol, page 9.)
3. What, according to Marx, has been the effect of the factory system upon the laborer? (Skelton, pages 33-34.)
4. What is meant by "wage slavery"? (Skelton, pages 30-32.)
5. What is meant by the "iron law of wages"? (Le Rossignol, page 9.)
6. What, according to socialism, has been the effect of capitalism upon the moral tone of the workers? (Skelton, pages 37-40.)
7. Who are the bourgeoisie? (Communist Manifesto.)
8. Who are the proletariat? (Communist Manifesto.)
9. What, according to Marx and Engels, are the aims of socialism? (Communist Manifesto.)
10. What does Marx mean by "class consciousness"? (International Encyclopedia, vol. 21, page 235.)
11. What changes would occur in human character, in the opinion of the socialists, if socialism were to supplant capitalism? (Le Rossignol, page 10.)