... , which led many persons, especially workers, to question the liberal creed. It was in reaction to the failure of liberalism to provide a good life for everyone that workers' movements and Marxism arose. Because liberalism is concerned with liberating the individual, however, its doctrines changed with the change in historical realities. Liberalism in the Twentieth Century By 1900, L. T. Hobhouse and T. H. Green began ... , particularly economics and sociology. The Warren Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision declaring school segregation unconstitutional transformed ...

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... "sharing of the land" resembles Russian's collective farming. In a sense Jim Casy is like Lenin. He is starting a revolution against greedy capitalist land owners. Jim Casy would have definitely embraced Marxism. In a way Jim's revolution was similar to the Russian Revolution. Another historical allusion can be made with the French Revolution through the theme of class struggle. In the French Revolution ... is seen through the characterization of Tom Joad. He was portrayed as a somewhat good natured and honest character, yet he murdered two men. It is left to the reader to define charac...

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