The first substantial theorists on social change were Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto. ... For example, at the end of World War II when the USSR brought the "iron curtain" down across Eastern Europe this changed the whole world's future dividing it into two camps, the Communists and the Democrats. ... In his analysis, Wallerstein identifies two phenomena that govern the process of social change: cycles (political and economic) and trends. ...

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Marx believed that societies such as hunters and gatherers existed in a Primitive Communist state. ... " In England, modern society is indisputably developed most highly and classically in its economic structure" The Manifesto of the Communist Party Marx and Engel's 1848 illustrated Marx's views on class through discussing the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. ...

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