In response to economic conditions created by capitalism, socialists argued that social order is maintained through production owned in common, a cooperative sense of human nature, and proactive government intervention. ... Under socialist theories, human nature is inherently cooperative leading to the greatest social benefit from production owned in common. ... By acting upon an inherent sense of cooperation, a socialist society believes that wealth and ownership of production should be shared in common amongst the workers to prevent wrongful appropriation from capitalists who take profits, &...

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According to Milner, Political economy can be defined as a "culturalist sense of the antithesis between culture and utilitarian capitalist civilisation [combined with] a utilitarian sense of the importance of material interest" (Milner, 1991: 40). Cunningham and Flew see the ABC as an attempt to achieve a synthesis of these elements to create a sense of cultural identity (Cunningham and Flew, 2000: 237-240). ... The resulting impact of these commercial outlets is the creation of a broad based ideology stemming not from individualism but from a mass media mechanism, and as a result, the sense...

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Karl Marx set forth the fundamental proposition, which forms the nucleus of the Communist Manifesto: that consequently the whole history of mankind (since the dissolution of primitive tribal society, holding land in common ownership) has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes; that the history of these class struggles forms a series of evolutions in which, nowadays, a stage has been reached where the exploited and oppressed class-the proletariat-cannot attain its emancipation from the sway of the exploiting and ruling class...

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