Similarly, the nineteenth century proved to be an era of increased international commerce, triggered by the industrial revolution but, in the 1930s, this economic expansion was reversed as political turmoil created the Great Depression. ...

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Again, it was best said in the Communist Manifesto, while interchanging the word communist for environmentalist: "The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas."" ... But this was not a consideration, for Eastern Europe supported it, and had it not been for the revolution many farmers would have been driven into poverty through bankruptcy, which led to local rural support. Its objectives at the beginning of the revolution, in the agricultural sector, were: meet f...

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In his 1969 work, "The State in Capitalist Society," Ralph Miliband outlined what he saw as several key aspects of the nature of the neoliberal world. As part of the 'New Left', an emerging stance on the left wing of politics, Miliband disagreed with the notion of pluralism being a means of spreading political power across a wider spectrum than what he called the 'dominant class', which he asserted to maintain not only the majority of the wealth, but also the majority of political power with which it has come to be associated. He also asserts the very real existence of &...

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