... absolute destruction of a portion of its numbers every year.' Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. ["The name has been changed but the story is about you."" Horace, Satires] For slave-trade read labour-market, for Kentucky and Virginia, Ireland and the agricultural districts of England, Scotland, and Wales, for Africa, Germany. We heard how over-work thinned the ranks of the ... bourgeoisie were developed. The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the c...

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... Communism evolved as mutations of socialism. Capitalism leads to high unemployment, separation (what Marx's called alienation), and poverty. Communism in practice leads to political control, the suppression of free speech, and the suppression of religion. Socialism is the in between of the two extremes. Capitalism is a political system where privately owned factories exist in order to create profit ... university professor, believed that a country's wealth depended on all people pursing their own interests, which will by coincidence promote their country's interests. Governments should p...

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... interests previously. The current situation is one which can sometimes seem to be a fast-growing American empire in that the past's limits to American trade and influence have been removed to allow industrial and financial interests to operate more freely. The related concept of a New World Order, in ... other expressions of political violence. Nevertheless, there is not much deviation from what seems a Western capitalist ideal in the expansion of markets and trade even when these create suffering among people in one part of the world or another. Unfortunately, many people tend not to qu...

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... land, reasoning the lighter workload compensated for the reduced wages. He may have been acting with some degree of autonomy in so doing but it points to the illusion of "free labour" that Marx said must exist for capitalism to survive. Although the worker could choose between working his mother's plot or selling his labour to the cane plantation, in reality ... peasants' lands, he no longer could use the commodities he produced for their use or reciprocal exchange value.(Marx,Durkheim,Weber, Morrison, Ken, Sage, London, 1995, p.97) He was not "free" but at the mercy of those who own th...

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