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This 6 page report discusses the theories of Karl Marx and their relationship to the evolution of big business in the United States and the altering of the economic reality of the nation after the Civil War and into the 20th century.
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was always well-aware that it was not the working class but the middle class that drove history along its ever-progressing path. Social historians and political scientists have researched all
levels of society to find "class consciousness," but it was the entrepreneurial-merchant class that actually carried out the historical task of liberation, modernization, and self-actualization. Marx also suggested that
in one very real sense, the middle class was undeniably the protagonists of modern history through the simple, indisputable fact of having developed a greater awareness of what history had
created, established, and systematized. That vision of the middle class is easily understandable from the perspective of the 21st century but was less understandable in Marxs own time. Upheaval
and Change The mid-19th century to the opening of the 20th century was clearly a time of upheaval and change throughout the world. In the United States, the Civil War
had shifted loyalties, perceptions, and politics in ways that had never been considered to be even remotely possible. It serves as a fine irony that Karl Marx, who
so counted on the middle class and the industrialized nations to be central to the revolution was, instead, one of the last of the intelligensia of the period to realize
that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners of the globe. In the long-term, his assumptions were patently wrong! Diggins (1996) points out that
Marx thought that liberation, according to the belief system of the bourgeoisie, was possible only through competition (pp. 3). However, once Marx made such a hypothetical statement to
that effect he also illustrated the ways in which it was possible to develop "the consciousness of mutual exploitation as the general relation of all individuals to one another" (pp.
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