Can Marxism function in a modern-day world? ... In a modern capitalist state everyone can be a shareholder and can receive dividends from the company they work for or own a share in, no matter how modest their income. ... Marxist socialism requires a strong government; an "enlightened dictatorship", and a strictly planned and controlled economy working in the interest of the whole community with emphasis on science, technology and industry. ... In conclusion I believe that Marxism cannot function in a modern day society as people would be unwilling to give up their individual freedoms. ...

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Industrial Revolution is when the period from the 18th Century to 19th Century had a major changes in technology, agriculture, transportation, communication and social life. This period has seen as one of the major forces that revolutionised the Western world into the modern era and transformed the economic and social structure of Europe dramatically. ... Britain plays an important role in the process of industrialization as many and many technologies were invented. ...

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During the late nineteenth century Germany's Chancellor, Otto von Bismark, began an initial movement towards the modern welfare state. ... Industrial Period changed business practices, separating themselves from government and society (non-market).Taking advantage of high-volume mass production technology, this period encouraged businesses to serve the interests of its owners, looking at providing low-risk profit, and not society as a whole. ...

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New levels of technology that had never been seen in Africa were introduced, such as electricity and telecommunications. Some Africans benefited from these developments intended for all, but new forms of inequality and tensions arose when the colonial powers left: between traditional and modern, upper class and lower, and urban and rural, where there had not been such tensions before. Without opportunities created by the linking of Africa to the western world, it is unlikely that indigenous ruling classes would have catapulted themselves from pre-capitalist levels of wealth to modern bourgeois...

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New levels of technology that had never been seen in Africa were introduced, such as electricity and telecommunications. Some Africans benefited from these developments intended for all, but new forms of inequality and tensions arose when the colonial powers left: between traditional and modern, upper class and lower, and urban and rural, where there had not been such tensions before. Without opportunities created by the linking of Africa to the western world, it is unlikely that indigenous ruling classes would have catapulted themselves from pre-capitalist levels of wealth to modern bourgeois...

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"A Little Bit For Everyone" The current capitalist economic system will destroy the world. That is essentially what followers of the principles of communism believe, and what they would have the average man (or woman) also believe. While the influence of communism is not acknowledged by many as ...

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