... increased agricultural surplus, it brought disaster to the countryside. The peasants were forced off their land and into the factories. This industrial revolution was triggered by the discovery of the steam engine, various spinning machines, and other mechanical devices. Only big capitalists that altered the method of production and displaced the former workers, could buy these machines, which were very expensive. The ... ...

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... it has been developed and modified by his own culture-is said to have character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has a character. If, in addition to being his own, his impulses are strong, and are under the government of a strong will, he has an energetic character." (Mill On Liberty pg ... ...

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... deal with the exponential levels of growth, and therefore Modern Industry in turn took their place. This was largely thanks to the advancements made in technology, where the use of steam and machinery transformed industrial production. Modern industry, in turn, led to the establishment of the modern bourgeoisie. "The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry, the place ... its rule of scarcely one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together" (McIntosh 1997:42). These included advancements in ...

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... corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop. Meantime the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising. Even manufacture no longer sufficed. Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production. The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry, the place of the industrial middle class, by industrial millionaires, the leaders of whole ... ...

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... result of the conflicts inherent in the capitalist system. Economic forces were seen to totally determine the nature of society, and changes in the economic structure were considered the sol engine of historical change. Marx opened new intellectual vistas by breaking out of the political-diplomatic way that had bound most historical investigations before his time (6). Marx and Engels are the ... ...

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... aspects of culture and social relations are connected to the economy in direct and indirect ways and may influence the development of the economy; but the economy is the main engine of history. So, we can say that in this view, the economy is a "theoretically privileged- institution "it is more important than other institutions "because it shapes them more ... ...

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... , and they identify four elements which their idea of class is not. Class is not seen to entail any theory of history according to which class conflict serves as the engine of social change. Nor does it imply any theory of class exploitation according to which all classes must be necessarily and exclusively antagonistic. Thirdly the version of class analysis endorsed ... ...

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