Despite this failure, he was still a great political leader and set the basis of Communism in Russia. ... While studying in Berlin, he discovered Hegelian idealism, and this quickly became the foundation of his own thought system, and Karl became a member of the young Hegelian movement. ... He moved to Cologne where the city's liberal opposition movement, known as the Cologne Circle was fairly strong. ...
Francois Quesnay, a French economist leader of the physiocrats, believed that only the agricultural classes are capable of producing surplus out of which the state could find the capital to support an expansion of the flow of money or could levy taxes to meet its needs. ...
"Save England before it blows up, like the springing of a mine" (Hillis-Miller 1998, 31) is the warning embedded in Charles Dickens's Bleak House, though it seems far from the time in which the novel was born. The 1850's saw the staging of the Great Exhibition, an event through which England could b...
