6. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word in the correct form; largely; property; to evaluate; can; to inspire; to be regarded; according to Marx; to distort; to seek; subject .

1. Plato presented an idea of a community where …….……..would be owned in common and an aristocracy of philosopher-kings would rule.

2. Aristotle …… generally …………. as the founder of the scientific approach to political theory.

3. He transcended the traditional church-state debate by …………….. the problems and possibilities of governments …………. to maintain power.

4. John Locke argued that governments ……………. legitimately overthrown if they failed to meet their obligations to the people.

5. It …………………. many revolutionary and nationalist movements.

6. The state ………………………………..would eventually disappear.

7. Political writing dealt ………….. with the struggle for supremacy between the Roman Catholic church and the Holy Roman Empire.

8. His doctrines …………………… to assert the supremacy of the state over the individual.

9. In the 20th century Marxism was……… to conflicting interpretations.