He also asserts the very real existence of 'poverty and deprivation on a huge scale and often of an extreme kind' and the dominant class's indifference to it as a result of their lust for further profit and negligence towards the welfare of their employees (Miliband p27). ... While the minimum wage today might be argued (rightly) to be insufficient, in 1959, the Terms and Conditions of Employment Act set the minimum wage at a rate which could sustain a family of one working parent and two children without falling below the poverty line (source: National Archives), showing a dut...

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Karl Marx Karl Marx was the greatest thinker and philosopher of his time. His views on life and the social structure of his time revolutionized the way in which people think. He created an opportunity for the lower class to rise above the aristocrats and to fail due to the creation of the middl...

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The fine line dividing acceptable business practices from fraud illustrates how the crime of business executives are less `criminalised` than the burglaries or robberies of lower class offenders. ... According to Marxist, crime is a product of poverty, Marx sees society as dominated and controlled by those who own the `commanding heights` of industry, commerce and finance. ...

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Some of the features of industrialism were of workers who suffered through poverty, long work hours with no pay or benefits, and degradation of human life. ... Through a fascist's perspective, fascism is the purest form of democracy because it establishes a line of development for all individuals to form a community under one single binding ideology. ...

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This should not come as a surprise, considering the last line of the Communist Manifesto: "Working men of all countries, unite!... 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. ...

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"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 boast, according to the Times, "of that day when all ages and climes shall be gathered round the throne of the maker" (Schlicke, p48). Dickens was most certainly not to be found amongst this inertia of idol worship. For the novelist, the year was not one that should inspire celebration or s...

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