Macroeconomics: Principles, Problems, & Policies
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Chapter 2, Problem 3DQ
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The importance of private property for the success in a market system.
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Which of the following accurately explain why Karl Marx believed the market system was doomed to collapse? Check all that apply.
Capitalism would collapse due to its principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
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A spontaneous revolution by oppressed workers would destroy a system benefiting only the owners of capital.
Communism is the ideal system, which would evolve in stages from capitalism through socialism.
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