... capitalism did not succeed in fully establishing the capitalist relations of production. Rather it facilitated half-baked modernisation. It brought about an irreconcilable alliance between capitalist relations of production and existing pre-capitalist relations of production; it sought to articulate capitalist modes of surplus appropriation (such as commodity exchange) with pre-capitalist modes of surplus appropriation (tribute collection, sharing of agricultural ... ...

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... . Also things become more unfair when you take on board the wider Marxist argument put forward by such Marxist sociologists as Paul Willis and Pierre Bourdieu whom claim that the existing working classes are kept in place by an unfair education system (which counters the functionalist claim that society is based on the principles of a meritocracy and every one has a equal ... ...

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