developing urban centers. 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 .
