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Question | Answer |
Capitalism | The Age of Enlightenment welcomed the practical application of the growing body of scientific knowledge culminating in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations |
Socialism | Socialism emerged as a critique of capitalism. Marxism began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. Karl Marx thought industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own the means of production, the factories and the land) and the much larger proletariat (the working class who actually perform the labour necessary to extract something valuable from the means of production). |
Romanticism | An artistic hostility towards the new industrialisation - exponents included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. |
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