Marxism is powerful, but a top answer can put it under pressure. Each card asks a hard question about one Marxist idea. Commit your own answer first, then reveal the strongest challenge, the Marxist reply, and how to use it in an essay.
Built to push a strong student: these cards assume you already know the obvious replies. Each Marxist reply anticipates the well-read move and then comes back at it again, so you have to argue past your own best defence. How to use it: the point is not that Marxism is wrong, but that you can argue both ways. Try to answer each question before you reveal. The best 24-mark answers set a Marxist claim against the social-democratic and Third Way replies, and against thinkers outside socialism.
The Marxist assumption
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