Karl Marx · Economics

The Fall of Capitalism

Marx’s prophecy that capitalism, wracked by its own contradictions, would inevitably collapse and give way to communism - and the verdict history has returned on it.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Marx predicted capitalism’s inevitable collapse. Reconstruct the contradictions he thought would doom it, and say which predictions failed, in your own words.

Leads to Vladimir Lenin.

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