1. How does capitalism evolve and how does it produce political agents?
2. How has the proletariat developed historically? How is it different from what Marx envisioned?
3. What is hegemony? How does it relate to civil society and the state?
4. What is the petty bourgeoisie? What are the main ideological claims of fascism? How is the petty bourgeoisie the social base of fascism?
5. What is the relationship between capitalism and the state?
KEY TERMS (Needs to be included in Answers)
Systematic crises
Over-production
Class polarization
Class formation
Class-in-itself, class-for-itself
Class fragmentation
Classes as effects of struggles
War of position vs war of movement
Civil society
Hegemony
Fascism
Petty- bourgeoisie
Crisis of representation
Instrumentalist view of the state
Relative autonomy of the state
Structural theory of the state