... and Marshall (1992). It was the social contract theorists, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, who first arrived at explanations of inequality in the eighteenth century. As traditional society gave way to the more modern forms of capitalist industrialism, rationality governed the modern economic order, and the landless labourer was ... notable of these is consumption. Peoples identities are increasingly expressed through consumption rather than production, and as a consequence it is argued, that outdated nineteenth century class theories, obsessed with productivism, should be finally abandoned. I...

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... trade, viewing monopolies as inimical to the public welfare." (Colton 2002). II COMMUNISM Communism, as a daring experiment exhibits the same mixture of magnanimity and depravity. Rooted in a nineteenth-century dream of universal human emancipation, the "communist cause called forth heroism and saintliness but also cruelty and servility" (http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/rm/rm8-4.html). Communism is the doctrine ... have thought of the Bleak House: there was indeed a more than passing resemblance between the contemporary reality cities like Warsaw or Moscow and Charles Dickens's vivid descriptio...

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