As .
these urban centers or cities evolved using industry as the economic .
backbone for the population, a large number of factory workers were .
accumulated to operate the machinery in horrid conditions. These .
workers, which would be termed as the peasantry under a feudal system, .
were now the working class or proletariat. They entered cities with .
hopes of bettering their lives and survival. Though revolution never .
took place in England during this period, it allowed Marx to study .
industrialization, urbanization and imperialism. .
The theory of Marxism has three basic concepts: historic .
materialism, forces of production and relations of production. Historic .
materialism is defined as a society's past performance and present .
capabilities of satisfying the basic means of life. Humankind's basic .
needs of eating, drinking and shelter need to be met properly. The .
forces of production (technology, capital, the infrastructure of .
society, etc.) are important for the simple fact of who ever controls .
them controls the society. The last aspect of Marxism, the relations of .
production, deals directly with the relationships between classes of .
people (the aristocracy, the middle-class and the working class).2 .
Marxism includes a predictive analysis of socio-economic .
structures. Using history, logic and the dynamic nature of humankind as .
guidelines, Carl Marx attempts to map out a sequence of events which .
will eventually lead to utopia (anarchy). In his work, Das Capital, .
Marx details the six steps. These steps are primitive socialism, .
feudalism, capitalism, socialism, communism and then anarchy. .
The evolution of the English economic system during the 16th and .
17th centuries points to a shift from feudalism to capitalism. This .
shift is exemplified by the enclosures. The landlords began to fence .
their property in the common land areas. The "commons" were large plots .
of grazing and farmable lands that were used by both farmers and .