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This 3 page paper examines capitalism and how the towns are implicated in its development. Examples are provided. Capitalism is also discussed as a concept. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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are the unsavory characters of the street who live under the fear of attack and must scrounge to get a meal. To an extent, Dickens explores what Karl Marx would
see as the problem with capitalism. To Marx, the philosophy was the root cause for the lack of freedom in society. Marx and Engels said, in The Communist Manifesto:
"The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet,
the man of science, into its paid wage- labourers" (Marx & Engels, 1992, p. 21). One can see his point by looking at contemporary society. Minimum wage employees are
not really free as they are at the mercy of their employer who dictates hours, how work is done, what the rules are and what ones benefits will be. People
cannot move, or accommodate family life, often due to jobs that keep them chained to the corporations that employ them. They lack for material wealth because all the money is
funneled to the top. Even executives today often complain of many hours of work and an inability to make ends meet. Consumerism and impulse plays a part in this, but
it is capitalism that drives this phenomenon. This leads to a very compelling question, which is whether or not capitalism at least to an extent was driven by impulse.
Were the towns the impulse, or a catalyst, in respect to the development of capitalism? Many erroneously envision the birth of capitalism as something equated largely with cities,
but capitalisms birth occurred long before industrialization. Some theorists believe that the town is significant in an analysis of capitalism and not only that, that it provided the impetus for
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