It has profoundly influenced the entire world, and the development of the current political relations. ... Machines could produce faster then the skilled laborer and he became obsolete. ... Marx says "Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state, they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine" (Marx 43). ... The state is, similarly, an alienated form of political activity, embodying universal rights which are as ephemeral as is the idealized world of religion" (Giddens 5). ...

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