Not a lot has changed since Marx first started expressing his ideas on social class over 150 years ago. Writing during the emergence of Industrial Capitalism, Marx foresaw such concepts as globalisation, multinationalism and privatisation - tools of Capitalist society employed to ensure that the balance of money and power leans heavily towards the Capitalist class, or Bourgeoisie. These concepts have created a world in which economics is far more important than sovereignty. Nations can no …showed first 75 words of 1532 total…

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