Question

Why might Robert Owen have disagreed with this passage from The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?

Answer 1

Give the passage and possible choices.

Answer 2

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.—The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx

Why might Robert Owen have disagreed with this passage from The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?

Owen was in favor of distinct socioeconomic classes.
Owen did not believe that class struggles formed society.
Owen believed that society only changed gradually, not dramatically.
Owen believed that the different classes worked together.

Answer 3

Well, it wasn't 'A', to be sure, and 'B' doesn't sound right. He was a socialist, and I'd say that 'D' fits the context best.