Use the following statement by Robert Owen to answer the question below: / " ... but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold: and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes [interferes] at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal./" Source: Robert Owen, Rules and Regulations for the Inhabitants of New Lanark. What is one reason why Marx would disagree with this statement?

A) Marx did not think society could live peacefully.

B) Marx did not think society could live without crime.

C) This statement advocates the use of education.

D) This statement ignores the process of revolution.

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Joe Kent

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7 January, 23:47

Use the following statement by Robert Owen to answer the question below: / " ... but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold: and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes [interferes] at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal./" Source: Robert Owen, Rules and Regulations for the Inhabitants of New Lanark. What is one reason why Marx would disagree with this statement?

A) Marx did not think society could live peacefully.

B) Marx did not think society could live without crime.

C) This statement advocates the use of education.

D) This statement ignores the process of revolution.

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Lilian Young · Answer 1

D.

Explanation:

Karl Marx was the philosopher and an originator of the Communist Movement. He was also a German Economist. He theorised the theory of working-class revolution.

Marx was of a belief that a state of peace and stability can not be achieved without revolution.

And because of this notion, Marx would disagree with the statement of Owen that a society can attain peace and stability without revolution.

So, the correct answer is option D.