The Physioctrats and the Doctrine of Adam Smith were two economic developments that help pave the way to modern capitalism. Physiocracy implied that the existence of a natural order in economics made it possible for people to be prosperous without interference from the state. ... The vast increase in the market of European goods helped drive the adaptation to an industrial, manufacturing economy. ... Capitalism in England England's goal was to supply two-thirds of the glove with cotton: spun, dyed, and woven, in the industrial centers of Northern England. ... Although the industrial...

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Although Plato had just intentions, I agree with the need for an ideal republic, but I know it is impossible. ... Marxist theory focuses on understanding literature through and in relation to the determining forces of a society, such as history, economics, ideology, and class. The Marxist theory will help me analyze the connection between literature and society through the works of Karl Marx, Mikhail Bakhtin, F. ... Marx notices the class struggle in societies and becomes fascinated with it. ... In his quote, "languages of various epochs and periods of socio-ideological life cohabit wit...

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Along with advances in science and technology, philosophers began to see the world as governed by natural laws such as gravity and motion. ... Once realized, this brand of political association would be one which "will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before". ... Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? ... Jefferson was above all influenced by ...

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